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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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95nr TIL The Smithsonian reports that more than likely “Tisquantum” (meaning divine rage) was not the famous Native American’s birth name, but identifying himself as so was like sticking his hand out to the Pilgrims and saying “Hello, I’m the Wrath of God.”
E11d0 TIL that to get Tyrian Purple, you had to boil thousands of snails just to get a few grams of pure dye of it.
68K7 TIL: The family of Chris Benoit, the 40 year old wrestler who killed his wife and son before hanging himself in 2007, consider his death a result of brain damage, after tests showed years of wrestling injuries left him with the brain of an 85 year old with an advanced form of dementia
OoxWa TIL that Marvin Gaye, the man who wrote the world renowned peace anthem "What's Going On" got into a fight with his wife and proceeded to point a knife directly at her heart. Damn dude, what happened to "Don't punish me with brutality ?"
d8nRE TiL women receiving radiation to their pelvis can have their ovaries transplanted into their forearm (heterotopic transplantation) to be retrieved in the future for IVF and maintain their fertility.