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TIL Cecil Jacobson, a fertility doctor who used his own sperm to impregnate his patients without informing them, was awarded the Ig Nobel Prize for Biology in 1992, “for devising a simple, single-handed method of quality control.”

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YlVr TIL A photo of a man stealing a wallet in a store was on the bottom of The Lewiston Tribune on December 14, 2007. Above it was an unrelated photo of a man painting a business. Readers noticed both men were wearing the same clothes. They were identified to be the same person leading to his arrest.
v1r9r TIL a total of 62 extras and crew members died after a fire broke out while filming the Indian historical drama The Sword of Tipu Sultan (1989). It is the largest number of on-set deaths in film history.
KY0aQ TIL: TLC was the first all-female group to sell 10 million copies of an album - CrazySexyCool. But they weren't cool about making $50,000 each for the album while the record company got $75 million. So, they held Arista Records President Clive Davis hostage until the NYPD intervened.
VMKJG TIL that elephants have a prehensile penis. It can be controlled like their trunks, and is used to scratch the belly, swat flies, balancing and gripping objects.
W7RQ9 TIL about the most prolific art smuggler in US law enforcement history, Subhash Kapoor. The true extent of loot taken from countries around the world is unknown but one of the statues stolen from India went for 5 million dollars -- sold to the National Gallery of Australia.