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TIL identical twin boys were raised as a brother-sister pair (botched circumcision). The truth came when the one being raised as a girl INSISTED he was a boy; the parents admitted he was the subject of an experiment trying to prove gender identity was nurture, not nature. He later committed suicide.

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EM1o TIL due to a mutation in the MC1R gene, redheads require a larger doses of anesthesia compared to the rest of the population.
xONw TIL according to a lawsuit filed against medical clinics and physicians who performed his colonoscopy, a man claims he had left his phone on ‘record’ and caught staff mocking him the second he went under, making fun of his penis, threatening to fire a gun up his rectum, and more
D1xGp TIL Airman Marcus McDilda, shot down Aug. 8, 1945, was interrogated by the Japanese about the U.S. atomic arsenal. McDilda, knowing nothing, "confessed" under torture that America had 100 more bombs and that Tokyo was next. Confident he was telling the truth, the Japanese surrendered.
4k6a5 TIL Alice Hamilton was the first woman appointed to the Harvard University faculty in any field. During her years at Harvard (1919-1935), she never received a faculty promotion. She was excluded from social activities, could not enter the Harvard Union, or attend the Faculty Club.
0wklL TIL that Grape-kun, a Humboldt penguin that lived in a zoo in Japan, grew so attached to a cardboard cutout of an anime girl that he lived with it as his 'waifu' till his death.