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TIL of American psychiatrist Eugene David Glynn, who was a longtime romantic partner of Maurice Sendak. Sendak even illustrated Glynn's book "Desperate Necessity: Writings on Art and Psychoanalysis"

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neQlP TIL that the Montezuma Castle National Monument in Arizona was named by white settlers who assumed the Aztecs were responsible for all archeological sites but it turns out the monument has nothing to do with Montezuma or the Aztecs and yet no one bothered to rename it.
0dkjj TIL Canada and Denmark both gained their second international land border when they agreed in June 2022 to split an uninhabited island
dV6r TIL the most expensive material on the planet is antimatter worth $62.5 trillion per gram
ljd7 TIL of Félix Carbajal, a Cuban Olympic marathon runner in 1904, who ran in cut-off trousers, a long-sleeve shirt and a beret. He stopped to eat some apples, got stomach cramps, had a nap, then kept running, to place fourth. The winner, Thomas Hicks, used brandy and rat poison to assist his victory.
gVJy TIL identical twin boys were raised as a brother-sister pair (botched circumcision). The truth came when the one being raised as a girl INSISTED he was a boy; the parents admitted he was the subject of an experiment trying to prove gender identity was nurture, not nature. He later committed suicide.