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TIL a radio station offered six figures to anyone that would get a tattoo of the station’s logo onto their forehead. A man and his stepson did so and upon requesting the money they were told they “weren’t entitled to anything.”

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5VdQk TIL that there is a Phallological Museum located in Reykjavík, Iceland which houses the world's largest display of penises and penile parts and the collection holds well over 300 penises from more than 100 species of mammal.
nWKOr TIL: mRNA was first tested in the 1990s, but a 2005 breakthrough made it stable for medical use.Early attempts failed as mRNA degraded too quickly. In 2005, scientists developed lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) to protect it, enabling new medical applications
x690o TIL Anthony Hopkins once looked throughout the whole London for the book "The girl from Petrovka". Unable to find it he headed home, only to find a manuscript off the book on a bench. It later turned out to be the authors copy, which had been in a stolen car and dumped by the theif.
xV80B TIL of Bobby Driscoll, famous Disney child actor in the 1940s and 50s (including the voice of Peter Pan), who died penniless and alone at age 31 in an abandoned NYC building. When his body went unclaimed, he was buried in an unmarked grave.
p8wkO TIL that the FBI found the bodies of the 1964 Freedom Summer murders with the help of a hitman who, along with an agent, beat and kidnapped a KKK member. The Klansman had a gun barrel shoved down his throat as the hitman “started cutting his dick off with a razor” until the location was revealed.