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TIL that after Lorena Bobbit cut her husband's penis off, he went to star in a porn film directed by Ron Jeremy: 'featuring a post-surgery John Wayne Bobbit as Frankenpenis, a castrated man who had a "super penis" sewed onto him in an experiment'.

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Gx7g TIL on the real whaleship Essex (which was destroyed by a white sperm whale, inspiring Moby Dick) the crew resupplied at Galápagos by collecting 300 Galápagos giant tortoises which they let roam the ship at will, butchering them at sea as needed.
p8bwp TIL of Francis Salvador – elected to South Carolina’s Provincial Congress in 1774, he’s considered the first member of the Jewish faith to hold elective office in America. Killed in a joint Loyalist/Cherokee ambush in 1776, he became the first Jewish soldier to die for the Patriot cause.
epD5 Today I learned that many of the men who acted as guards along the Great Wall of China in the Middle Ages spent their whole lives there. They were born there, raised there, they married there, died there, and were even buried within the wall.
awLBy TIL that Ted Kaczynski, aka The Unabomber, became convinced while a graduate student that he should get a sex-change operation
VdBB TIL that Duck Hunt works by flashing the screen black when you shoot, except where there are ducks, and a photodiode in the barrel of the gun either picks up the lit area where the ducks are, or it doesn’t, which determines whether your shot hit or missed.