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TIL Burt Ward once claimed that his penis was so big that ABC prescribed him penis-shrinking pills.

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mxJGx TIL our solar system is currently traveling through an interstellar cloud that is as hot as the surface of the sun and 30 light years long. It is thought to have entered the region at some point between 44000 and 150000 years ago and is expected to remain within it for another 10000 to 20000 years.
j6rlv TIL of the Transfermium Wars, a controversy between US and Soviet scientists about the names of super-heavy elements. The final outcome was to name element 104 as "rutherfordium", element 105 as "dubnium" and element 106 as "seaborgium", which more closely matched the US than the Soviet proposals.
mxJ4E TIL in 1984, a episode of Thomas The Tank Engine featured an engine, Henry, who refused to go out in the rain. To solve the problem, the workers boarded Henry up in a cave and abandoned him.
1MV8 TIL the “nasal cycle” is the biological process that automatically switches the bulk of breathing from one nostril to the other throughout the course of the day - and it explains why those with colds will often feel more stuffed up on one side at any given time.
R5Wr1 TIL Robin Williams used to trash-talk teenagers on Call of Duty, and described the series as "cyber cocaine".