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TIL Jaimee Foxworth who played the youngest Winslow on the show “Family Matters” (Judy) was written out of the show with no explanation after asking for a raise. She went on to star in porn under the name “Crave”

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5Vm9 TIL that a cartoonist confronted a burglar running through his house. He called the police and took pen to paper to produce a caricature of the burglar. The police immediately recognised the burglar from the drawing and he was soon apprehended.
WkBW4 TIL about the No Gun Ri massacre, which took place on the 26th July 1950, where US Forces killed a large number of South Korean Civilians. One GI, Norman Tinkler, was later quoted by the Associated Press as having said, “We just annihilated them.”
M7rrA Today I learned that if we lived on Mars, we would soon develop orange skin.
PYdkw TIL the severe pain from platypus venom can be felt for years, sometimes decades, and does not always respond to painkillers such as morphine.
kOwr7 TIL J.J. Thomson won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1906 for showing that the electron is a particle. His son, George Paget Thomson, won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1937 for showing that the electron is a wave.