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TIL The Red Hook Society for the Apprehension and Detention of Horse Thieves, the oldest horse thief apprehension and detention society in the USA, has never apprehended or detained a single horse thief.

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OMEg TIL the Trident Missile has the ability to fly in a GPS-denied environment by Star-Sighting navigation.
wZo TIL: That the Danish slang for a womans menstrual cycle translates to: “There are Communists in the funhouse”.
yQJml TIL that a male can develop breast cancer
yv8a TIL that he head of MGM referred to Judy Garland as his “little hunchback,” and forced her to wear caps on her teeth and rubber disks in her nose. She was given amphetamines and barbituates as a child actress. This lead to the lifelong self-esteem and drug problems that later killed her.
7dgX TIL Biologists at Osaka University in Japan have discovered a new way to grow the many separate tissues that make up the human eyeball, including retinas, corneas, the eye’s lens, using stem cells extracted from a small sample of adult skin