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TIL that the "Johns" in Johns Hopkins was originally a last name, not a first name: "Johns Hopkins' peculiar first name was simply a family affair; it had been his great-grandmother's maiden name."

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697mW TIL I learned you can have Down syndrome and Tourette and autism at the same time and it happened. You can also have alzheimer and parkinson because both affect different part of the brain. You could then have down syndrome tourette autism alzheimer and parkinson at the same time, that would be wild
v1lED TIL Rami Malek watched the YouTube video of Freddie Mercury’s Live Aid performance (1985), over 1500 times in preparation for the film Bohemian Rhapsody.
1aBor TIL that the last US President elected from outside the Republican and Democratic parties was technically Abraham Lincoln who ran under the National Union name
R5bE7 TIL when the directors of Harold and Kumar (2004) took their movie to film producers, the producers said "we really love this movie", but wanted to change the main characters from Korean and Indian to "a White guy and a Black dude"
OG04e TIL 🤯🦒 Mind-Blowing Giraffe Fact: The Longest Giraffe Neck Ever Recorded measured… about 2.4m (8 ft) in length! #Giraffe #shorts