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TIL Warren G Harding nicknamed his penis “JERRY”

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BBOk TIL creativity has been linked to depression, anxiety, and “madness”, with writers being 121% more likely to suffer from bipolar depression than the general population and 50% more likely to kill themselves.
KO8Jw TIL Members of a chimpanzee troop in Senegal have been observed by scientists fashioning tree branches into spears and using them as hunting tools.
m1Pop TIL the first submersible, the USS Turtle, was built in 1775.
R7QK7 TIL that Stalin killed way more people than Hitler by creating a famine to promote his forced collectivization of agriculture and five-year plan.
VDE0 TIL of the Bugis, an ethnic group in Indonesia whose society recognises five genders. Four are comparable to cis/trans male/female respectively, while the fifth, bissu, transcends gender.