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TIL in 1996, a patient with gender dysphoria was successfully treated using pimozide

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l76RN TIL: Timothy Dexter was an eccentric businessman known for his improbably successful investments. He was fooled to send bed warmers to the West Indies (hot), but sold them as ladles, he exported stray cats to the Caribbean who used them to kill rats, etc. He also told people his wife was a ghost.
1lZW TIL that Bell telephone could have made the internet back in the 1960s if their “picturephone” service had not flopped.
oeno TIL that Hervé Villechaize, best known as the diminutive Nick Nack in ‘The Man With The Golden Gun’, helped deal with child abuse in the 70s and 80s, going to crime scenes to help comfort victims. He would often confront and chastise spousal and child abusers in person, despite standing only 3'11".
yQB4J TIL: There are no names given to the numbers between googol, skewer’s number, centillion, and googolplex. And, there is apparently no Global agreement on naming large numbers.
yQ8Ov TIL "fernweh" is a German word that describes the feeling of being homesick for a place you've never been.