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TIL Mike Tyson once offered a zookeeper $10,000 to fight a gorilla

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5YKGp TIL of Xie Jianshun, a Taiwanese soldier who was discovered to be intersex. When the doctors examined him they concluded that his male gonad tissue was deteriorating and decided it was for the best that he undergo sex reasignment surgery. The transition was then imposed on Xie against his wishes.
LQYP0 TIL about Eutelic organisms - organisms, adult species of which have a fixed number of somatic cells - further growth occurs via cell enlargement only.
b9lg9 TIL that a former CBS anchor and Fox weatherman quit his job to become a gay porn star
Br6Ld TIL about the existence of the Kermode bear (aka the Spirit bear) which is a rare subspecies of the Black bear. 10%-20% of individuals are born white and there are only between 100 and 500 left in the wild. They are basically white Black bears.
E1NKX TIL there was an experiment where three people, who each believed they were Jesus Christ, were made roommates at a psychiatric ward. At first, they argued over who was holiest and even fistfought. Eventually, each patient wrote the other two off as being crazy.