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TIL A mentally ill young man who shot himself in the head in a suicide attempt suffered a brain injury that apparently eliminated his phobia of germs and his obsession with washing his hands

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LrEd TIL Abraham Lincoln tried multiple times to remove all Africans from mainland America and was described as “entirely devoted to the welfare of white men” by prominent abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass.
oRR6E TIL Drake tried to have his character rewritten and healed to be removed from the wheelchair, but backed off when the writer of Degrassi confronted him.
OoX7R TIL that the Kool-Aid man is an official Marvel character
N7PBM TIL that elephants are scared of bees even though a bee sting does not penetrate their hide