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TIL Castration prevents male pattern baldness if it is done before hair is lost

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OjPL TIL of actor William Haines (1900–1973), who quit acting in 1935 when his studio employer, MGM, tried to pressure him into ending his relationship with his male partner and entering into a “lavender marriage” to hide his homosexuality. Instead, the two started a successful interior design business.
rvle TIL: That the only woman ever in history to obtain a 10th degree black belt in Judo did so at the age of 97. She also continued teaching Judo 3x a week until she died at 99
6El7w TIL that Sean Penn began his acting career as an extra on the television series "Little House on the Prairie", when his father directed some episodes.
bBXj TIL the Soviets space program didn’t only put the first man in space, but also the first women, space station, space rover and had the first (unmanned) soft landing on any body other than earth
RNDQ TIL that the band Led Zeppelin got its name from a critic saying they would crash like a lead zeppelin(airship) and that the reason that they used Led instead of lead is because “the stupid Americans would pronounce it leed”