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Til About the Babe Ruth Story, a 1948 biopic of the eponymous baseball star that is considered to be the worst baseball film ever made. In it, Babe Ruth is portrayed as miraculously healing several children and a dog with his baseball antics.

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Vj0p TIL during the 1950s and 1960s alone, the US government and military conducted experiments that included spraying sailors with sarin gas, releasing bacteria on the city of San Francisco, and feeding radioactive oatmeal to handicapped children.
eXPL TIL ‘Carmen 16’ is a poem written by Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84 BC – c. 54 BC) that is considered so sexually explicit it wasn’t published in English until the late 20th century. It is considered one of the filthiest expressions ever written in Latin, or any language, for that matter.
GYgxE TIL that in "Oblomov", the second novel by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov, it takes the protagonist the first 50 pages, to get up from bed, and move to a chair.
gG0A TIL of British engineer Beatrice Shilling, who designed “Miss Shilling’s Orifice”, a stopper in early Spitfire engines that prevented engines from flooding during barrel rolls (and she raced motorcycles and was altogether pretty bad ass.)
GAgGE TIL about childhood dementia. It is a result of progressive brain damage and can be caused by over 70 rare genetic disorders. 700,000 children are estimated to be living with some form of childhood dementia today. 48,300 children die from childhood dementia each year.