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TIL there is an informal strategy called the “small penis rule” used by fiction writers to avoid libel suits by writting the character like the real person but with a small penis so nobody claims the character represents them

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VMbyG TIL Yūichirō Miura became the first person to ski on Mount Everest on May 6, 1970. He descended nearly 4,200 vertical feet from the South Col (elevation over 26,000 ft). This feat was documented in 1975, in the film The Man Who Skied Down Everest. The film won the Academy Award for best documentary
b9wJE TIL Samuel L. Jackson was an usher at Martin Luther King, Jr.'s funeral
dg59 TIL there is an old whistling language known as “el silbo”, which is used by the people of La Gomera to communicate across long distances. Due to its loud nature, it is generally used for public announcements and can be heard from 5 km away.
DQo6J TIL that the 1948 United States Presidential Election was the first election to have primary and general election debates, with Thomas Dewey debating Harold Stassen in the GOP primary while Socialist Nominee Norman Thomas debated Socialist Workers Nominee Farrell Dobbs in the general election.
OQA6 TIL that Martine Rothblatt made millions by inventing satellite radio. When her daughter was diagnosed w/ pulmonary hypertension, she earned a PhD in bioethics & formed a biotech company that licensed drugs to treat her daughter’s illness from other companies, making them much more widely available