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TIL “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” was named so because studio executives feared that audiences wouldn’t want to see the word Charlie in the title, since American soldiers in Vietnam often used “Charlie” to refer to the Viet Cong.

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j6yMQ TIL about the Ham Sandwich Theorem, which states that states that given n measurable "objects" in n-dimensional Euclidean space, it is possible to divide each one of them in half (with respect to their measure, e.g. volume) with a single (n − 1)-dimensional hyperplane.
YpVOW TIL that the 1968 Flu pandemic killed over 1 million people
n6pG TIL The doctor who discovered that hand washing prevented the spread of disease was thrown in a mental institution for his crazy ideas.
j66ga TIL that hugging a cat or dog has been shown to reduce stress and anxiety, especially for people dealing with illness, depression and other .
1a98P TIL Christopher Columbus hanged, burned, or cut the hands off of hundreds of thousands of Caribbean natives for their failure to bring him a bell full of gold on an island with little to no gold. Thousands committed suicide to avoid his punishments.