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TIL half of British women cannot identify the vagina on a medical diagram.

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4kmwb TIL after Mary Ann Bevan's husband died in 1914, she couldn't support herself & her 4 children.So since she had developed acromegaly, she decided to capitalize on her appearance & enter an "ugliest woman" contest & won.She was then hired as a "freak show" & made $1.6 mllion in today's money in 2 yrs
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1aMK7 TIL SpongeBob SquarePants creator Stephen Hillenburg wanted SpongeBob to be a character with a "young, boyish" attitude, drawing comedic influence from Jerry Lewis, Stan Laurel & Pee-Wee Herman
p8Rbp TIL when Patrick Stewart grew a comb over as a young bald man, some friends of his invited him on a picnic, then forcibly held him down, cut it off, and told him "You be yourself. No more hiding."
XEKGE TIL that my Great Uncle (Grandpa's Brother), Aldo Vera Serafin, was a Cuban Exile who was shot and killed by "unkown assailants" in the '70s. He was the head of the "Technical Investigations Department," which is a fancy name for "Cuban FBI." He betrayed Castro by working with the CIA and fled Cuba.