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81JV TIL that researchers who study crime acknowledge that bedwetting is not linked with sociopathic behavior.
kO8j5 TIL that in the theatrical release of Bruce Almighty, God pages Bruce using a real phone number. The owners of the number (which included a church in North Carolina) got hundreds of phone calls from people wanting to talk to God. The TV/video versions were edited to show the fictional 555 exchange.
XEGeE TIL that Senator Jake Garn, who flew in the Space Shuttle in 1985, experienced the worst case of space sickness on record. Because of this, NASA jokingly uses a "Garn Scale" to measure reactions to space sickness, where "1.0 Garn" is the worst.
7r9OX TIL that the only place on Earth where both crocodiles and alligators live together is in the United States, in the Florida Everglades.
XK5E TIL that the 39th and 40th governors of Illinois were both sent to prison on corruption charges.