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TIL as many as 38% of rape victims are male.

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XEeB8 TIL the Elephant Man had to sleep sitting up. One night he tried to sleep lying down, to be 'like other people', and he died from a dislocated neck.
Oov8g TIL stunt performer and Jack-Ass star, Steve-O was born in Wimbledon, London
a8OEL TIL that in 1997 Pope John Paul II had named St. Isidore of Seville as the patron saint of the Internet, as the seventh-century theologian and encyclopedist who wrote the sole encyclopedia for nearly a millenium around 650 AD.
EOOX TIL: China has a National Pole Dancing Team.
j6Nbv TIL that in medieval times, surgery was considered too menial a task for physicians to perform; it was instead delegated to barbers.