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TIL a NASA physician recommended that crew members aboard Skylab masturbate while in space to help with infected prostate glands.

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R7Vp4 Til After Nike released Air Jordan sneakers in 1985, the NBA banned Michael Jordan from wearing them because it's colours didn't match his team's uniform. Nike supposedly paid the fine of $5000 the NBA charged Jordan each game so he would continue wearing them.
LkVRd TIL - The guy who wrote the dialogue for Portal was diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis while working on it. He tried to quit Valve, and Gabe Newell gave him extended leave and told him that his only job was to get better.
neQ9d TIL that the main reason why Mickey, Donald, Pinocchio & other early Disney characters wear gloves is because it was easier to animate them. Walt Disney told his biographer that the gloves also exist for another reason “We didn’t want him to have mouse hands because he was supposed to be more human”
Vjek TIL that Al Queda’s strategy specifically involved using terrorism to provoke the West into long wars in numerous places that would lead to its financial collapse.
nkZB TIL: Gordon (sesame street) has been played by the same actor since 1974