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TIL of Stella Walsh, an Olympic runner who in 1936 lost to a competitor and petitioned for her to be subjected to a gender test (due to her fast time). Upon autopsy in 1980, Stella was discovered to be a man.

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mxloP TIL All Fruit Loops taste the same regardless of color.
d8l5Q TIL In 1867, thousands of formerly enslaved African Americans in New Orleans protested and achieved desegregation of the city's streetcars, nearly 90 years before the bus boycotts in Montgomery.
Oo986 TIL that Somniosus microcephalus aka Greenland Sharks can live for more than 400 Earth years and sometimes don't even reach puberty until they're well in their 150s.
LkMZm TIL of Dunbar's number, proposed by anthropologist Robin Dunbar, who found a correlation between primate brain size and avg. social group size. By using the avg. human brain size and extrapolating from the results of primates, he proposed humans can comfortably maintain only 150 stable relationships
wLX9P A new study published February 15 in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society finds that the Andromeda galaxy is actually around the same size as our own galaxy. Scientists previously thought Andromeda was about two to three times the size of the Milky Way, and that it would one day swallow us up in a galactic smashup billions of years away. But researchers using a technique to measure “the speed required to escape a galaxy” have figured out why Andromeda is smaller than research has suggested, according to the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR). This could seriously change the outcome of that eventual merger.