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TIL some men are getting “facial hair implants” because they can’t grow full beards. Plastic surgeons say more men have been getting the surgery in recent years as beards have become trendier.

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yQB5e TIL In 1915, Kulbir Thapa was the first Nepalese Gurkha to receive the Victoria Cross. Thapa carried two wounded Gurkhas through No-Man’s-Land despite being wounded himself. When he went back a third time, German soldiers stopped firing and began clapping, allowing him to walk back to his own line.
mWGY TIL Jim Morrison , on LSD, was listening for the first time to “Joy to the World” - better known as “Jeremiah was a Bullfrog” - when he saw a monkey run into the room, start dancing, and juggling Christmas ornaments. It was not an hallucination.
nrDB TIL that upon leaving office, President Harry S Truman chose not to be on any corporate payroll, believing that taking advantage of such financial opportunities would diminish the integrity of the nation’s highest office.
XEmr TIL: A boomerang will still come back to you in a zero gravity pressurised environment
K5a9 TIL math dyslexia is a real, diagnosable condition called dyscalculia.