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TIL that a man with 140 lbs. testicles was left unhappy with removal surgery after the procedure left him with 1 inch penis

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ADjMa TIL there's a material called FOGBANK that's used by the US Department of Energy that's so top secret and compartmentalized, that the government once actually "forgot" how to make it due to a lack of actual records and dwindling institutional knowledge
QN08L TIL that Hayley Mills starred in a 1960's film called "Whistle Down the Wind", which was based on a novel by her mother Mary Hayley Bell, Lady Mills.
a8VmJ TIL The most heavily bombed country in history is Laos. The US dropped 260 million bombs on a neutral country, Laos, in attempt to disrupt Vietnamese supply lines along the Ho Chi Minh Trail. An estimated one-third (80 million) of the bombs have net detonated and are still at risk to do so.
N75V1 TIL that the Rare Earth hypothesis states that the origin of life on Earth required an improbable combination of astrophysical, as well as geological events in order to occur, and will likely not happen again in the Universe.
BgZXL TIL NASA Finds Only 40 Digits of Pi Needed to Accurately Calculate Observable Universe's Circumference within 1 Hydrogen Atom