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TIL in 1967, Singapore experienced a mass panic over shrinking genitals; hundreds of men ran to hospitals convinced their penises were retracting into their bodies due to “genital retraction syndrome”

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6EYgQ TIL Caitlyn Jenner is against gay marriage and describes herself as a "traditionalist"
lo4AV TIL during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russians made a small "mouse" hole into a secure anti-doping lab and exchanged "clean" urine samples for those showing their athletes' PED use. Over 100 dirty samples were smuggled out by a Russian agent pretending to be a sewer engineer.
6EYp8 TIL Cleopatra Was Not Egyptian
p8QkO TIL that in 2013, archaeologists consulted 3 San hunters from Namibia to help interpret human footprints left in caves in France during the last Ice Age
xVvlD TIL 'The Great British Bake Off' is credited with the revival of the Women's Institute, which saw its highest number of new members since the 1970s shortly after the show began airing. It also resulted in an increase in the number of independent bakers and the number of people baking at home doubled