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TIL about Rollen Stewart, the "Rainbow Man" known for wearing a rainbow wig and holding "John 3:16" signs at sports games in the '70s and '80s. Eventually he started setting off stink bombs and in 1992, took a maid hostage during a protest. A prosecutor called him "a David Koresh waiting to happen".

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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.
p8knA TIL Larry Hillblom, the H of DHL, regularly took "sex safari" trips to Asia to prey on underage girls. When he died in a plane crash, 4 of the illegitimate children he fathered were able to claim $50 million each from his estate.
gMEWX TIL Operation Midnight Climax was established in order to study the effects of LSD. Sex workers on the CIA payroll were instructed to lure clients back to the safehouses, where they were given LSD and studied through a one way glass to see if this could help the CIA's mind-control research program.
R7Laa TIL one out of a million Germans die of masturbation
OE84 TIL that Click (2006) is the only Adam Sandler film to date that has been nominated for an Oscar. The category was ‘Best Achievement in Makeup’