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TIL about Callon of Epidaurus, who underwent the first recorded sex reassignment surgery in the 2nd century BC and then socially transitioned from a priestess to a man.

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Z8NXY TIL about FNG Syndrome. Instead of rotating units into and out of Vietnam, the US military replaced individual members. The replacements were subjected to abuse from their peers, leading to an increase in the number of psychiatric casualties who were removed from the battlefield
e5B5 TIL Alaska is larger than all but 18 sovereign countries. It also has a longer coastline than all of the other U.S. states combined.
5gZQ TIL that in 1863, Jules Verne wrote “Paris in the 20th Century,” a manuscript which predicted everything from glass skyscrapers to feminism to a statistical rise in illegitimate births; his publisher advised him against publishing it as it “broke no new ground” and was “unbelievable”
6ErvW TIL of White Boy Rick, an 14 year old FBI informant who was sentenced to life in prison due to the FBI not wanting to admit having used a teenage.
999Q TIL that the characteristic steam plumes that rise from the streets of NYC are caused by a massive pipe network that carries steam (at 175°C) used for energy and cleaning solutions. It’s the biggest of its kind in the world and it’s been around since 1882.