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TIL the midnight dust from Are You Afraid of the Dark? was played by Coffee Mate powdered coffee creamer

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p84G8 TIL Cartoon Network banned an episode of Cow and Chicken called "Buffalo Gals" which allegedly implied lesbian stereotypes including the Gals being mistaken for men and the line "Oh! the Buffalo Gals, a motorcycle riding gang that randomly breaks into people's homes and chews on their carpets."
4XaP5 TIL NASA was founded about a year after the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik, an artificial satellite and the first human made object to ever enter orbit, because it terrified the United States that this would give the USSR significant ground in the Cold War
W7DYA TIL before Ozzy Osbourne developed Parkinson's Disease, his entire genome was sequenced to help understand how he survived all the drugs and alcohol he consumed.
X0gEQ TIL, that there is a sea slug species where one sexual partner injects the other one it's prostate fluid to it's head.
M8M0 TIL that children of identical twins, while legally cousins, are genetically half-siblings.