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TIL dick meant ‘a person of questionable character’ long before it was a slang word for the penis

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VB5gp TIL Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan, Napoleon, Mussolini and Hitler are reputed to have suffered from ailurophobia - the fear of cats.
kjG4 TIL that asthmatics can cough up mucous casts of their own airways.
QXle TIL NYC has a secret, off-limits island graveyard that is home to over 1 million bodies.
gMgD4 TIL that the most famous picture of Audrey Hepburn was taken in a lunch-break during the filming of War and Peace (1956).
5YNNk TIL To disprove reports of his death after a weeks-long disappearance, the President of Turkmenistan appeared on state television driving a rally car around a flaming gas crater known as "Hell's Gate"