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TIL famed B-Movie director and cross-dresser Ed Wood served with the US Marines during WWII. He later said he feared being wounded more than killed as a combat medic would then discover him wearing a pink bra and panties under his uniform during the Battle of Tarawa.

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78lZ7 TIL Disney produced an educational film in 1946 called The Story of Menstruation that was the first production ever to use the word vagina
0d1nM TIL Box turtles evolved from water to land, then back to the water, then back to the land again
KyOQ TIL of the Little Dodo bird, a smaller relative of the extinct Dodo, which is still alive today, but once again being pushed to the brink of extinction
8ae9P TIL Fresh apples sold at supermarkets might've been picked a year ago
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