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TIL 75% of all Silent Films Have Been Lost

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jNnYn TIL Not everyone has an inner dialogue
7rb1Z TIL of Sir Ewan Forbes, an intersex British aristocrat and rural doctor who applied to change his sex in 1952. Afraid of possible ostracism, he alerted his patients, priest and friends in advance and found that they were “universally supportive”. He married his partner in a church a month later.
4mN TIL Korean baseball teams are named after companies that own them, not regions (an example is Samsung Lions)
gr6QD TIL that James Earl Ray's brother once tried to sell a videotape of his brother's autopsy for $400K.
R7MP6 TIL: Researchers hypothesize that the European Bison originated as a result of a hybrid between two other species. They refer to this hypothetical ancestor as the "Higgs Bison".