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TIL of the Small Penis Rule, which is when authors create a character based off a real person but give the character a small penis, so that the real person is less likely to accuse them of libel, since then they'd have to say they have a small penis too.

oRDKA TIL that Neptune was discovered in 1846 not by accident, but because astronomers noticed Uranus was wobbling off course. Mathematicians used Newton’s laws to predict where a hidden planet should be and when they pointed a telescope there, Neptune was right where the math said it would be.
Z4OG TIL the water-repellent properties of NeverWet spray can be used to create ‘invisible ink’ street graffiti that only shows up in the rain
X0g5R TIL Tom Dwan won the largest poker pot ($3.1 million) in broadcast history by calling down an ace-high bluff by Wesley Fei with a pair of queens. Later in the same cash game, Fei won the 2nd largest poker pot ($2.25 million) in US broadcast history against a different player.
QJaw6 TIL the German version of "The Bachelorette" was a complete flop because instead of of fighting over the girl, the guys bonded with each other and had fun drinking and partying together.
kOx71 TIL: Japanese hipsters in Nagoya are dressing like cholos (urban Mexican Americans). Apparently, movies going back to the 80s, some Japanese autoworkers who fell in love with cars in LA, and a popular rapper popularized the trend, drawing people in withits perceived "rebelliousness".