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TIL that professional wrestlers stab themselves with a razor blade to create blood for the match

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RA7l TIL that in response to a Tennessee State Legislature bill that prohibited schools from alluding to the existence of gays, George Takei offered up his name, suggesting that people could just substitute Takei for ‘gay’. For example, supporting Takei Marriage or using slurs like That’s so Takei.
m1L5E TIL in the 1906 book 'John Dough and the Cherub' the titular Cherub was a child of indeterminate gender; the editors created a contest to guess the gender and second place argued girl as "if it had been a boy he would have eaten the ginger-bread man at once whether it agreed with him or not"
WkrL TIL Neptune’s moon Triton will one day be destroyed by the gravitational forces of Neptune and the resulting debris will give Neptune a ring system similar to Saturn.
8aeaG TIL the Teenage Mutant Turtles and Daredevil both gained their powers from the same accident
6pjW TIL that President Harry S Truman’s middle name is just the letter S