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TIL The doctor who claimed that there was a link between vaccines and autism lost his medical license for fraudulent data produced from a study.

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gMnn9 TIL the famous composer Johann Sebastian Bach had no less than 20 children.
NX0X1 TIL about actor Doug McClure, who was the inspiration for The Simpsons' character, Troy McClure. McClure's daughter said that while watching an episode of The Simpsons, Doug saw the character Troy McClure on the show and said, "Are they making fun of me?"
M7PGb TIL that when Louis XVI was executed in 1793 during the French Revolution, his severed head was paraded around for the crowd and was met with exclamations of "Vive la Republique!"
wLkP TIL there is a brand of cigarettes designed explicitly for smuggling.
vlGB TIL in 1973, three astronauts on the Skylab 4 space station went on strike after being over worked, demanding more time for contemplating the universe and in Pogue’s words “studying the, the Earth below, and ourselves”: the first strike in space.