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TIL a hyperandrogenist, Olympic runner, Caster Semenya, underwent gender verification tests to prove to officials she was “female”. Tests showed she had no womb or ovaries & had internal testes.

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woZPJ TIL the name of Nottingham is Anglo-Saxon in origin. A Saxon chieftain named Snot ruled an area known as Snotingaham in Old English
OKl4 TIL of a condition called ‘dactylolysis spontanea’, where a person’s toe just randomly falls off, and doctors have no idea why it happens
wLPbJ TIL beloved WWII correspondent Ernie Pyle was responsible for military troops receiving higher pay when in combat. Pyle felt that ground troops were at equal risk as airmen and that 'flight pay' should extend to 'fight pay'. It became the Ernie Pyle bill.
R7b04 TIL the history of Londons stretcher railings, metal fences made from WW2 stretchers once used to carry wounded civilians during the Blitz.
rN7jW TIL that the fiction planet of Tatooine in Star Wars was named after the city of Tataouine in Tunisia, where the Tatooine scenes were filmed.