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Today I learned that the slang word “stan” originates from an Eminem song of the same name, a portmanteau of “stalker” and “fan”. The connotation was originally negative.

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Vxg8 TIL of Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome—where a person with XY chromosomes externally develops to be identical to XX girls/women. A vagina is present but no uterus. It’s often undetected until a lack of 1st menstruation is noted. Most identify as women & grow up to be attracted to men.[NSFW]
1DOO TIL on the night of May 27, 1991, a drugged, naked, bleeding boy of 14 was found in a Milwaukee street. When police arrived, they returned the boy to the control of Jeffery Dahmer, who almost immediately killed and dismembered the boy. 2 women who argued with the police were threatened with arrest.
wPQP TIL that war dogs are always ranked higher than their handlers in order to ensure that if a handler ever mistreats his dog, it would be considered assault on a superior officer.
v1kyB TIL, in an unusal way, that Jerry Seinfeld date a high school girl when he was 38 years old
9YyOB TIL that in 1995 NASA updated an original study by Peter N Witt on the effects of various drugs on spiders and found similar results.