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TIL Oklahoma Judge Donald Thompson had exposed himself during court at least 15 in between 2001 and 2003 and was using a penis pump during 4 of those trials

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x6OZ1 TIL the city of Tyre was on an island in antiquity, but has since become contiguous to the mainland. The causeway that Alexander the Great built to conquer it in 332 BCE resulted in silt depositions that eventually formed a peninsula.
Lk7Am TIL the HMAS Melbourne was initially sold for scrapping, however China bought the rights to scrap and instead fully documented and analyzed the designs for their own carrier program. Decommissioned in 1982, reports suggest it was not scrapped until 2002, having been used for training in those years.
b6jej TIL that tight end Antonio Gates amassed a Hall of Fame NFL career despite having never played college football. He went to college wanting to play both basketball and football, but played basketball after being told he could only play football.
8exjP TIL that a new science called "Chaimatics" emerged in 1985 when experimenting with cAMP (for cell neural signal processing), which aims to model cells as molecular computes through Quantum Physics
x68Xw TIL that a high school student exposed the King of Belgium's illegitimate daughter. Mario Daneels, 18 years old, wrote a biography of Queen Paola, wife of Albert II, in 1999 which revealed the secret. The embarrassing book appeared as Albert's heir Philippe (the current king) was about to marry.