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TIL in 1983 a brain wound cured a 19 year old man of OCD and he became a straight A student and retained the same IQ.

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xVm45 TIL there was a study which polled 1000 men and 1000 women to find the ideal placement of a nipple on a female breast. According to the results, men preferred "nipple placement which give the breasts with a more youthful look" where women preferred "placement which give a more realistic look"
p8r7N TIL Nowadays a slave costs about $90 on average worldwide compared to $40,000 in 1850, an average cost in the American South.
a8NAM TIL that MLB player Marty Bergen, who killed his entire family and himself in 1900, still received a few votes for the Hall of Fame.
jK9p TIL that Pee-wee Herman began as a raunchy nightclub act/HBO special, before toning it down for children’s television
VBAWm TIL that the US Coast Guard uses a captured Nazi German sailboat to train its cadets