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TIL when Eminem heard Ice Ice Baby for the first time, he “felt like he didn’t want to rap anymore.”

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MxxW 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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v1bo4 TIL In 1985 the Russians made a movie called The Detached Mission which was a response to Rambo: First Blood Part II.
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nen0P TIL the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) helped bring the first case of child abuse to court in 1874. At the time, there were laws against abusing animals but no laws against abusing human children.