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TIL that 'Sticky Vicky' featured in the TV show 'Benidorm' was a real person who actually had that act.

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j6rlv TIL of the Transfermium Wars, a controversy between US and Soviet scientists about the names of super-heavy elements. The final outcome was to name element 104 as "rutherfordium", element 105 as "dubnium" and element 106 as "seaborgium", which more closely matched the US than the Soviet proposals.
4dNN TIL Mario wears a hat because programmers found it difficult to create the hair movement that would occur when the character jumped.
5Yne8 TIL: Treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate to more than 80%.
4X5ja TIL astronauts need to sleep near air vents or risk carbon dioxide from their own lungs forming a bubble around their head due to weightlessness.
Oo01L TIL of Olivia Hooker, a survivor of the Tulsa race massacre who became the first African-American woman to enter the U.S. Coast Guard in 1945.