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TIL the first case of nonischemic priapism (an unwanted persistent erection) following penile tattooing was reported in 2012. A man got a tattoo on his penis which caused a permanent semi-erection. After an unsuccessful surgery to fix it, he decided to live with it since it was painless & functional

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XEQ96 TIL the oldest and at one point most influential British merchant bank was destroyed in 1995 when an employee made a safe bet that stocks on the Tokyo Stock Exchange wouldn't drop, one day before the Kobe Earthquake.
nPrY TIL Teddy Roosevelt had 31 pets at the White House. His pets included a one-legged rooster, a hyena, and a small bear.
gMe58 TIL of Martin Heemeyer an American welder and Muffler repair shop owner who in 2004 went on a rampage and destroyed numerous buildings in the town of Granby Colorado with a modified bulldozer.
n0Rr TIL when the islands of St Kilda were evacuated, the local subspecies of house mouse quickly went extinct as it depended so closely on human settlement
j6QYN Today I learned that cucumbers are botanically berries. (Just learnt this from a previous post!)