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TIL, Synthetic Testosterone is derived from Soy. The term soy boy really is ironic

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e0y96 TIL Brazilian billionaire Chiquinho Scarpa decided 2013 to bury his $500,000 car. This led to an outcry as he rather ruin his car than donate it. But at the burial Scarpa revealed his bluff to the press, saying that anyone who refuse to donate their organs bury something far more valuable than a car
GAoy5 TIL, when walking into a bar in England, Jimi Hendrix and his band were told they weren't welcome by a bartender who said "Sorry, mates, we can't serve your sort in here,". Hendrix thought it was because he was black, but it was because they were mistaken for circus clowns.
rNJkw TIL that by the third and fourth centuries most Roman citizens had entirely abandoned using parental given names (praenomen). Instead, they used clan names (nomen) or nicknames (cognomen)
Xm4r TIL having chronic pain can damage your brain over time because of constant brain activity in areas of the brain that should normally be at rest
78onM TIL in 1967, gay rights activist John Nichols appeared in an NBC documentary called The Homosexuals. He used the pseudonym "Warren Atkins". His father was an FBI agent and feared he would lose his security clearance if they found out his son was gay, to the point of threatening to kill him.