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TIL SNL’s Vanessa Bayer was a Make A Wish kid. She was diagnosed with leukemia as a child and her father’s humor about her diagnosis inspired her to go into comedy

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rG1d TIL Fidel Castro Believed JFK’s Death Was a Conspiracy with Three People Involved
OyDL TIL that an English photographer makes her living by taking lookalike photos of celebrities, including so-called shots of the queen on the toilet, a US president playing guitar in a sauna, and Marilyn Monroe being intimate with J F K.
QJYPk TIL A roman consul was told before a crucial battle with Carthage that the auguries suggested he shouldn't go to battle, since the chicken didn't eat that day. Wishing to do it any way, he proclaimed "lets see if they will drink", and had the sacred chickens drowned. He fought and lost the battle
Z8BKo TIL that psychopaths show immunity to "contagious yawning", where seeing someone else yawn makes you yawn as well.
nW6rd TIL in 2019, the Netherlands became the first country to completely ban the Hells Angels biker gang. In July of 2022, the Supreme Court Of The Netherlands reaffirmed this ban and made it permanent. Other countries (such as Germany) had banned local chapters, but never the club as a whole.