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wgR1 TIL Victor Wong, Egg from Big Trouble in Little China, died as a result of exhaustion due to staying up and watching the wall to wall coverage of the 9/11 attacks
vMaj TIL: The opening of the male urethra, the meatus, is a vertical slit in order to force urine to exit in a spiral after having traveled the length of the penis in a vertically compressed tube. This design allows for greater control of the stream and also keeps the end of the urethra clean.
v1bXx TIL At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. When notified of his selection, he announced that he would turn over the prize money of $54,123 to the furtherance of the civil rights movement.
MeZyb TIL that Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs, a blackface parody of Snow White, has been praised by animation historians, and has been included on lists of the greatest animated films ever - but is considered to have racism unparalleled in cartoon history, and has been banned from circulation since 1968
W4m9 TIL that Joseph Stalin’s only daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, spent the last years of her life in Wisconsin, U.S, where she died only four years ago.