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TIL Short Man Syndrome is real

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eny6 TIL a man was stopped at an airport because he was suspected of carrying a weapon, upon further inspection it was actually his abnormally large penis.
oRJ7W TIL in the 1950s, when the CIA was fighting the Huks, a communist guerrilla movement in the Philippines, they spread rumors that evil men would be attacked by an aswang or 'vampire'. As part of psychological warfare, they punctured holes in a dead body and drained it of blood for others to find.
9YlXX TIL of a 240 year old robot boy called "The Writer" - ancestor to the computer and can be "programmed" to write 40 character sentences
W7rlN TIL George Washington wanted to burn down New York City during the American Revolution so that the British could not seize it.
OERe TIL Walt Disney brought live deer into his studio during the making of “Bambi” so the animators could study the real movements made by these animals.