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TIL that 1 in 13 American Kids are on Psych Meds

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GALYN TIL that William C. Minor, an M.D. from Yale and schizophrenic, killed a man and then became a brilliant linguistic scholar and a major contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary, while in an asylum for the insane
MZ1A TIL Gene Roddenberry devised the names for his characters Khan (Khan Noonien Singh) and Data’s father Noonien Soong in the hopes that a friend he had met in WWII would recognize his name and contact him.
BrpQe TIL that Queen Victoria was addicted to cocaine infused chewing gum. She was even believed to have shared some with a young Winston Churchill.
xLr1 TIL a study at Duke University showed that male rhesus macaques will give up privileges to be allowed to see a female monkey’s ass: “Virtually all [male] monkeys will give up juice to see female hindquarters … they really value the images.”
nWmxd TIL Martin Luther King Jr. And Richard Nixon were both offered roles in Advise & Consent (1962). King made a press release saying he would not be in the film. Nixon turned down the offer over technical errors in the script.