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TIL of a woman who tricked her girlfriend into sex by pretending to be a man. She was jailed for 6.5 years for using a fake penis on her partner.

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OEL6 TIL of “The Mad Piper” Bill Millin, the only bagpiper to land on the beach in Normandy. While men fell around him, he played his pipes throughout the battle. A group of captured German snipers was asked why they hadn’t shot him. They replied that they thought he’d gone insane and felt bad for him.
VoXZ TIL Octopi are the only conscious invertebrates and have cognitive thinking abilites, individual emotions and personalities, and even form relationships with humans.
LkAlV TIL that the middle finger is offensive because the finger represents a penis, and the curled fingers around it represent the testicles. By flipping someone off, you are offering them a phallic gesture.
69WO7 TIL That there is a school of Santas! It is in Midland where men are taught sign language and other skills, for playing their character!!
4kR95 TIL that famed scientist George Washington Carver had a respiratory infection in his youth which him with an unusually high pitched voice that “startled all who met him.”