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TIL that both men and women laugh more at men than at women

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GYlgN TIL at the peak of Kelsey Grammers addictions, Frasier writer Dan O'Shannon said "he would snap into Frasier and expound in this very erudite dialogue and be pitch-perfect. Jimmy would cut and he would ooze back into Kelsey—glazed over eyes, half asleep, going through whatever he was going through."
oRnaW TIL Chinese basketball giant Yao Ming was knowingly bred for the sport, forced into it against his will and subjected to years of dubious science to increase his height
0avR TIL the first surgery to establish surgery as a respectable branch of medicine was performed on King Louis XIV’s anal fistula
bjRE TIL that the “fact” that you eat 8 spiders a year was a social experiment to show how fast false information spreads on the internet
Z88A4 TIL In 1903 after camping with John Muir, Teddy Roosevelt established Yosemite as a national park to preserve its "majestic beauty all unmarred." As President, TR signed into existence four other national parks, 18 national monuments, 55 national bird & wildlife refuges, and 150 national forests.