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TIL: The man who discovered the precursor to Viagra presented his findings at a national urology meeting with a chemically induced boner, which he revealed when he removed his pants during the presentation.

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Mer5W TIL that when a man from Fort Benton, Montana died in 1936, his body was taken east by train to be buried by his family. His dog, Shep, waited at the station and greeted every incoming train for six years, expecting his master to return on board one day. Shep was hit and killed by a train in 1942.
Oo7Zg TIL In 1900s, Minnie M. Cox, the first African-American woman postmaster in the United States, was forced to resign due to threats of physical harm from local white citizens. President Theodore Roosevelt, feeling Cox had been wronged, closed the post office and continued to pay her salary.
v17l8 TIL that J. Michael Straczynski, writer of Spider-Man comics and creator of Bablyon 5, had a mentally ill prostitute for a mom and an abusive Nazi for a dad
a4db TIL That Frank Sinatra was a big activist in the civil rights movement, refusing to stay at hotels that didn’t allow “blacks”. Even using his mafia ties to help get labor unions behind JFK because he knew they shared the same opinions on equal rights.
VO0D TIL Vin Diesel is a huge fan of Dungeons & Dragons, having played it for over 20 years including nights off when he was a bouncer, and wrote the foreward to the commemorative book “30 Years of Adventure: A Celebration of Dungeons & Dragons”.