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TIL that 0.5% to 0.7% of all words spoken are swear words

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NoRb TIL that frequent making of jokes, including puns, can be a diagnosed disorder, possibly caused by a stroke
e0dG4 TIL of Joey Deacon, a man with severe cerebral palsy who was introduced to the UK public in 1981 by tv show Blue Peter as part of the Year of the Disabled. His mannerisms started a craze of kids calling each other Joey Deacon when they’d done something stupid that lasted for years.
PKpg TIL the US was one vote away from introducing hippos in its swamps
lK45 TIL that Ellen Degeneres turned down the role of Phoebe on “Friends.”
PYZgG TIL “that when we see really ancient images of far off and very, very old objects, that light has traveled from that star through the universe for sometimes billions of years and the first object it hit was our telescope detector.”