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TIL Johns Hopkins no longer performs sex change operations because they believe the desire to change one’s sex is a mental disorder.

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wL14E TIL TED held its first conference in 1984 and included presentations from Apple, Sony and other professionals. It was a finalcial flop and it took 6 years for them to organize the next event in 1990.
g6BA TIL that a man that died helping people in 9/11 was accused of being involved in the attack because he was muslim
WBW9 TIL that Melvil Dewey, creator of the Dewey Classification System, had “a persistent inability to control himself around women”. At Columbia “it was rumored that he asked for their bust sizes with their applications”; not true, but he did ask for photographs because “you cannot polish a pumpkin”.
4RXJ TIL Canadian astronomer and renowned eclipse chaser J. W. Campbell traveled the world for 50 years trying to see 12 different eclipses. He ran into overcast skies every time.
LQXrd TIL that during World War One up to 12 million letters a week were delivered to soldiers, many on the front line