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TIL some people can hear colours and taste words, a condition known as synesthesia

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gLr7 TIL in 1809, a woman diagnosed with an ovarian tumor rode 60 miles on horseback to see a surgeon who was willing to extract it. It had never been done before out of fear it would kill the patient. After the 22.5 pound tumor was removed from her body without anesthesia, she lived another 32 years.
loRrr TIL Shirley Temple's first acting job was in series of short film called Baby Burlesks, and in one of them she played an elite prostitute sent to influence a backwoods politician. She was 4-5 years old.
Y7egv TIL that ABBA is a Swedish pop band with male and female members, and not a Swedish female pop singer.
agM TIL there is an “anti-Pluto”, a dwarf planet sharing Pluto’s orbit but located on the opposite side. It even has a moon: Vanth.
KYbgQ TIL the Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch (who died of throat cancer in 2012) straight-up invented a sound never heard before: the reverse drum beat, played on Paul Revere (source in notes)