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TIL the Wright Brothers (airplane inventors) did not finish high school

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d8pNK TIL that ethinlyestradiol (EE2) can cause impaired sexual differentiation in male embryos. Said embryos are intersex, genetically male but physically female.
b9Mo9 TIL erotic artist Toshio Maeda in the 80s started to feature tentacles in his intercourse scenes to avoid being censored by the Japanese government. His "a tentacle is not a penis" argument worked and started the trend of Japanese anime, manga, and video games featuring tentacles.
DPlV TIL of the ‘toast sandwich,’ a sandwich originating in the UK that consists of two slices of bread, with a slice of toast as the filling.
jNaAv TIL that in 1986, Alfonse D’Amato, a New York Senator, resorted to reading aloud from the District of Columbia phone book during a 23 ½ hour filіbuster. 6 years later, the same Senator started singing a song satirising the outsourcing of American jobs during a 15 ¼ hour fіlibuster
Mekym TIL that George Meegan walked from the southern tip of South America to the northernmost part of Alaska, an unbroken walk of 19,019 miles.