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TIL Football Manager 2005 was banned in China for recognizing Tibet as an independent country

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R7NG6 TIL Of Frances Kelsey, the physician who refused to allow the deadly drug Thalidomide from entering circulation into the US in the 1960's, saving numerous American infants from disfiguration and birth defects
Br9WW TIL that Jim Carrey's Grinch smile isn't prosthetic or CGI, he can actually contort his face that way.
WkXZ9 TIL In 2008, NASA beamed a song - The Beatles' "Across the Universe" - directly into deep space. The transmission was aimed at the North Star, Polaris, which is located 431 light years away from Earth. The song will travel across the universe at a speed of 186,000 miles per second.
e64 TIL Fetuses masturbate [NSFW]
grLPy TIL 5 members of Ernest Hemingway's family committed suicide.