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TIL One of the most probable characteristics of the golden state killer that helped to his arrest is his victims' statements about his exceptionally small penis.

lobpK TIL That Medival Europeans thought that a brownstone supposedly found in old toads heads could cure almost any poison and the stones were often made into highly prized jewelry. These stones were in fact fossils dating from the Jurassic/Cretaceous period and had no curative properties.
jx1v TIL Kevin Costner was angry with Universal Pictures because they cut his full-frontal shower scene in For the Love of the Game, saying the studio lacked “real courage.” A studio exec told NY magazine that it was cut because a test audience laughed at his penis.
dyZZ TIL When Eleanor Roosevelt married her cousin (and future President) Franklin D. Roosevelt, she didn’t have to change her last name. And she was given away by her Uncle, (President) Theodore Roosevelt.
ZloY TIL Africa’s tallest apartment complex has a dark central void space, its first 3 stories filled up with accumulated garbage - it has also “developed a reputation for defenestrations – accidents, suicides and otherwise.”
d0g7 TIL Joe Rogan was the Massachusetts full contact Tae Kwon Do champion for four consecutive years. By the age of 19, Rogan won the US Open Tae Kwon Do Championship and as lightweight champion went on to beat both the middle and heavyweight title-holders to obtain the Grand Championship.