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TIL that Brigham Young was once a distiller

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vveR TIL A boy who’s circumcision was botched was given a sex change suggested by his doctor. Later, it was discovered the doctor was conducting an experiment trying to prove that gender identity is primarily learned. The boy killed himself at 38 years old.
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a1nJ TIL when Dennis Hopper’s 7-year-old son asked him why he played King Koopa in “Super Mario Brothers,” Dennis told him “So you can have shoes.” The son replied, “I don’t need shoes.”
QJm0k TIL that there is a song that sounds like it is sung by an American in English, but in fact is only gibberish sung by an Italian imitating the accent. It was written to demonstrate how a lot of Italian people loved English songs but understood only very little.
VMEA8 TIL that nitrous oxide, commonly known as laughing gas, was first used as a recreational party drug by Britain's wealthy class in the 1700s before it was ever utilized for medical reasons