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TIL Jaleel White only auditioned for the role of Steve Urkel so he could buy a Sega Genesis

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7O7p TIL in 1987, Mr. T angered the residents of Lake Forest, by cutting down more than a hundred oak trees on his estate. The incident was called The Lake Forest Chain Saw Massacre
nWJ19 TIL P.T. Barnum showed off a “161”-year-old woman. After her death in 1836, an autopsy was performed and it concluded that her body was not >80 years old, aligning more closely with persons in their 70s than those >100 years
MeYw0 TIL that there's a town in the Dominican republic which for some time has had a regular population of children who appear female throughout childhood, but develop male organs during puberty. They call these boys "guevedoces" which is slang for "eggs (testes) at twelve".
9QLm TIL During the horsemeat scandal earlier this year, meat pie from Iceland was tested and was found to contain no meat
9rDr TIL that in 1945, Eisenhower predicted that people would try to deny the holocaust, and had multiple pictures taken of the Nazi crimes to hinder any such attempts.