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TIL Ernest Hemingway had a transgender daughter. Gloria Hemingway (born Gregory Hancock Hemingway) was an American physician and writer. Although she lived most of her life publicly as a man, she struggled with her gender identity from a young age, and in her sixties underwent surgery to transition

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nEBB TIL Graig Nettles was caught using a loaded bat, but instead of cork inside, he used six Superballs which are children’s toys known for their bouncing ability
d8geQ TIL that between years 4000 and 3500 BCE the Tripolye culture centered around modern Moldova in Eastern Europe have built the largest settlements in the world at the time, inhabited by 20,000 to 46,000 people. Cities of this size only reappeared in Mesopotamia a millenium later.
edvL TIL that 1992 James May was sacked from Autocar magazine after it was revealed he had hidden an acrostic message in an end of year issue which read “So you think it’s really good, yeah? You should try making the bloody thing up; it’s a real pain in the arse.”
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