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TIL that, under certain conditions, a hen can become a rooster

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nw8B TIL That Joseph Stalin, despite being a fan of his films, considered ordering John Wayne’s assassination due to his vocal opposition to communism.
OojmR TIL Bob Gibbins claims he has the world’s largest collection of love dolls, 240 of them costing around $160,000. He and his wife spend a lot of time fixing them up to look as nice as possible. They also take them on walks and shopping trips around town. He denies having sex with them, however.
grPrL TIL of George Francis Train. He founded railroads, built parts of the transcontinental railroad and found a horse drawn tram in London. He traveled around the world in 80 days in 1870 and claimed: "Verne stole my thunder. I'mPhileas Fogg".
KYmbw TIL of Cockney rhyming slang, a form of word construction where words are matched with rhyming pairs and then the rhyming word dropped to create synonym for the original word. So ‘fart’ rhymes with ‘raspberry tart’, which becomes just ‘raspberry’ as in ‘blow a raspberry’
W7RYo TIL researchers found that a Medieval Italian man used a knife as a prosthetic limb after the amputation of his right hand. He attached it to his stump with a cap, buckle, and leather straps. The injury healed rather nicely and he managed to live for a very long time afterwards.