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TIL of John Wojtowicz, who robbed a bank to fund his partner’s gender reassignment surgery. In prison, they made a movie about the crime and he used the money he earned from selling the rights to finally pay for her surgery.

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6EMMX TIL Banach-Tarski Paradox: if you accept as true the Axiom of choice (i.e. from non-empty set you can always pick up a random element) then you could decompose a golden sphere into a finite number of pieces and, without any strecthing, reassemble these into two balls identical to the original one.
040y TIL the most valuable legal tender coin in the world is a $1 million coin made in Australia. But being that it weighs 1,000kg and is 99.99% pure gold, it is worth almost $45 million
wL6EE TIL Fred Fuchs wasn't some random guy who worked on the Bram Stoker's Dracula video game that was made fun of regularly by James Rolfe's character Angry Video Game Nerd, but is actually a television and film producer who helped make the movie as well as Godfather Part III, among other films.
9ndr 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.
NXnDM TIL Babe Ruth during his playing career never wore the Yankees home jersey with the interlocking NY (same as today). That was introduced in 1936 when Ruth was already retired. As a player he only wore the plain pinstripes at home.