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TIL when Robert FitzRoy, whom Charles Darwin travelled with around the world and later vehemently opposed to Darwin’s views on evolution, killed himself due to depression and money troubles, Darwin donated a sizable sum to FitzRoy’s widowed family to ensure they would not fall on hard times.

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86WV TIL Malcolm X avoided military service after being declared “mentally disqualified” because he told draft board officials that he wanted to “steal us some guns, and kill us [some] crackers.”
eG5E TIL in 2007, doctors treated a one year old boy that had mysteriously grown pubic hair and an abnormally large penis. Investigations revealed the father had inadvertently exposed the child to topical testosterone gel when cuddling him, which had been prescribed to treat the father’s low libido.
b9QQp TIL The novel "The English Patient" by Michael Ondaatje won the Booker Prize in 1992, and then won the Golden Booker Award (a special one-off prize awarded in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Booker Prize) 26 years later, in 2018.
KOYr6 TIL that "Ma'nene" is a rare death ritual in Troaja, South Sulawesi, Indonesia where family members remove dead relatives from their graves, dust them off, change their clothes and let them dry in the sun.
ADKXB TIL of a family that lived in Kentucky know as the Blue People of Kentucky. This family is notable for carrying a rare genetic trait that leads to the disease methemoglobinemia, which gives the affected person blue-tinted skin.