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TIL that the US Ambassador to Czechoslovakia when communism fell was Shirley Temple.

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ADVBw TIL scientists give funny names to genetically variant fruit flies; (Ken & Barbie): flies that fail to develop external genitalia, (Maggie): Flies that fail to develop past a certain stage & are named after Maggie from the Simpsons, (Cheap Date): A fly that expresses high sensitivity to alcohol.
xP0g TIL that the Germans used Churchill’s famous Tommy Gun portrait as Nazi propaganda
m1P4p TIL Down syndrome used to be called Mongolism
ADXBB TIL that while in Sharon Springs, Theodore Roosevelt was approached by a 12-year-old girl who asked if he would like to have a badger. Expecting to humor her, he agreed, and the girl came back with a 2-week-old badger. President Roosevelt named him Josiah and he became one of the presidential pets.
XBPr TIL there is a phenomenon called VIP syndrome, where physicians deviate from standard care to accommodate VIPs, sometimes with disastrous results