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TIL Janis Ian met Bill Cosby on tour as a teenager. Cosby, presuming she was a lesbian, is alleged to have warned television shows that she was “not suitable family entertainment” due to her sexuality, and attempted to have her blacklisted.

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X6YQ TIL in 2005, a man received a penis transplant for the first time in history after his own was severed in an accident. Two weeks after the procedure took place, it had to be removed “because of a severe psychological problem of the recipient and his wife”
Yp7m7 Consider the autoclave, which scientists use to sterilize tools and which issues scalding steam to do so. Or consider the heat gun, which is used to dry glassware and to warm distillation devices. It can also ignite anything flammable that gets too close. Glass containers in a vacuum can implode, spraying shards everywhere. Centrifuge rotors can fail, causing explosions that throw shock waves throughout a lab filled with chemicals. Steel vessels built to contain liquids and gases at hundreds of pounds of pressure per square inch can rupture, hurling metal at lab workers.
0dROp TIL The sign commemorating Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African-American boy who was killed in 1955 by two white men in Mississippi, had to be replaced with a bulletproof one because it had been repeatedly vandalized—first stolen, then shot at, then shot at again leaving it riddled with bullet holes
OoKjY TIL an University of South Wales study found that unlike Yorkshire accent and Received Pronunciation speakers, those who speak with a Birmingham accent seem less intelligent than people who say nothing.
Abeo TIL that antivenom is actually obtained by using milked venom from said species and injecting it into a sheep where antibodies are made and harvested from its blood