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TIL of "Bobst Boy," an NYU student who lived in the basement of the campus library for eight months because he couldn't pay for campus housing. NYU offered him free housing and financial assistance until graduation, and he now has a Ph.D. in folklore from Indiana University.

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gMRYX TIL semen smells... wonder what your parents smelled 24/7 when you were a teen.
N7W5N TIL the first vasectomy done for non-medical reasons was performed in the US in 1899 on a nineteen-year-old inmate in Indiana because he complained of “excessive masturbation." The doctor reported the inmate "became more of a sunny disposition, brighter of intellect and ceased to masturbate.”
QyEa TIL that a gorilla learned sign language, can understand spoken English, and scored up to 95 on IQ tests.
P1b9g TIL Neil Young was in a band with Rick James, along with Bruce Palmer, who would be another founding member of Buffalo Springfield, plus Goldy Mcjohn and Nick St. Nicholas, two future members of SteppenWolf. All partially thanks to Levon Helm and Garth Hudson, two members of "The Band"
x6rQD TIL that Kathryn Beaumont at 13 voiced Alice in "Alice in Wonderland" and did so again for "Kingdom Hearts" at age 64.