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TIL That a man called David Reimer was raised as a girl after a botched circumcision destroyed his penis. This caused him serious psychological damage, destroying widespread theories on the malleability of gender

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9wDNQ TIL in 1976 groundskeeper Richard Arndt caught Hank Aaron's 755th home run ball & tried to return it to Aaron but was told he's unavailable. The next day the Brewers fired Arndt for stealing team property (the ball) & deducted $5 from his final paycheck. In 1999, he sold it at auction for $625,000.
R9Gw TIL that Miller Lite’s sales increased dramatically after the company changed its cans back to the original 1975 white branding.
E1D0o TIL A grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan was arrested after he was caught being blackballed by cross-dressing black male prostitute in the backseat of a car
OG5V6 TIL Bill Melendez (Director of Peanuts Animations) and Hawley Pratt (Director of Pink Panther Cartoons) while worked at Disney, before the strike they were friends and developed their own Naval Game with Toy Ships.
PYkKE TIL the nickname Dixie, for the southeastern US states, comes from the Mason-Dixon line, a borderline which separated the US in slave and free states.