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TIL the reason so many crazy news articles begin with “A Florida man/woman…” is because the media have unrestricted access to Florida police reports.

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AP5B TIL that, in the 19th Centruy, women believed to be suffering from hysteria were treated with pelvic physical therapy - that’s an orgasm to you and me.
wLZG1 TIL: Of Dilsey Pope of Columbus, Georgia, a free woman of color, who owned her husband. After they quarreled, she sold him to a white slaveowner; he refused to sell him back once the couple had reconciled.
VBLJB TIL George C. Scott called the Oscars "a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons," and sent a telegram to the Academy telling them that he'd be refusing the award, and didn't even want his name on the ballot.
BPyr TIL in the 1980s a man with severe OCD shot himself in the head in an attempt to commit suicide. Instead of killing him, the bullet destroyed the part of his brain that was responsible for his OCD, and he went on to become a straight-A college student five years later.
6Edgl TIL Oxford University is 200 years older than the ancient city of Tenochtitlan, which was founded in 1325.