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TIL that Kenneth Pinyan, aka Mr. Hands, began seeking extreme sexual acts after a motorcycle accident left him unable to enjoy sex normally. He also had receptive sex with many horses before his death in 2005

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eZxL TIL of an actor named Del Close who died in 1999. In his will he bequeathed his skull to a local theatre so he could still play the part of Yorick, a dead court jester, in productions of Hamlet. However, no one wanted to remove his head after death, robbing him of one of his final wishes.
YA6A TIL The average American will have eaten 1,500 of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches before their high school graduation.
ADxLw TIL of Planet Nine - A hypothetical, 10x Earth-sized planet within our solar system that orbits around the sun every 15k years. This hypothesis is currently supported by Jim Green, director of NASA's Science Mission Directorate and professor Tom Levenson of MIT.
pYnZA TIL that Wheaties and other iron-fortified cereals will stick to magnets
OoB6g TIL that, in an 1886 speech, former U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes said that "free government cannot long endure if property is largely in a few hands and large masses of people are unable to earn homes, education, and a support in old age."