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TIL There is a version of shoulder replacement surgery that REVERSES the ball and socket arrangement

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6dB8 TIL that an average person’s yearly fast food intake will contain 12 pubic hairs.
ZpZaD TIL In 1947 a man named Art Lacey bet his friend $5 he couldn’t buy a retired B-17 and turn it into a gas station. After a wild journey including a plane crash, alcohol smuggling, permit skirting, and a cross country trip, he won that bet and it stayed in place for more than six decades
aDwA TIL The clitoris is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure. It has 8000 nerve fibres, double that of the penis.
a8BwZ TIL when 22-year-old nanny Marissa Mowry announced she was pregnant, the 11-year-old she was babysitting told his mom it's his son. A DNA test confirmed he was the father and she was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
gBJL TIL that Bob Barker was trained as a Navy fighter pilot in WW2, but wasn’t sent to a fleet squadron in time to fight. He once said: “I was all ready to go, and when the enemy heard that I was headed for the Pacific, they surrendered. That was the end of World War II.”