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TIL the symptoms Dr Who experiences while regenerating are based off of symptoms of a bad LSD trip.

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e0don TIL the word ‘penguin’ is likely to have originated from the welsh word pen (head) and gwyn (white).
4XMN TIL Stephen Fry was expelled from a number of schools and eventually spent three months in prison for credit card fraud
R7wyl TIL the Newseum, a neighbor to the Smithsonian, closed due to funding. It stood for the freedom of journalism, and displayed items from a German WW2 Tower to the Unabomber’s cabin to the antenna on top of the World Trade Center.
8aZgP TIL Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes author) was called upon to help solve a real life crime. His help kept an innocent man from spending life in prison.
9ww5D TIL there are "Harbinger households": neighborhoods that consistently choose failed products and therefore could predict market failures