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TIL Phil Collins dumped his wife of over ten years by fax.

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KYQp4 TIL SSRI medications lower testosterone "of the six SSRIs tested, all of them decreased testosterone levels and increased the ratio of estrogen to testosterone"
MeQXB TIL of Totino-Grace High School, a Catholic school named after both Archbishop Thomas L. Grace and Jim and Rose Totino, the frozen pizza entrepreneurs behind Totino's Pizza Rolls.
R7VQa TIL about steam train driver Wally Oaks who heroically gave his life to stop his train after an accident engulfed the engine in flames. He saved all passengers and was posthumously awarded a George Cross for bravery.
eJWg TIL Nikola Tesla created the first logic gate in 1898 when he created the first remote controlled vehicle, over 50 years before Walther Bothe won the Nobel Peace Prize for it. He reportedly told onlookers multiple times it was simple science beforehand so that they would not think it witchcraft.
4kvd5 TIL that your lungs aren't actually the same size; the right lung is slightly larger than the left and even has one additional lobe unlike the left lung.