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TIL the 21-year-old man who received the world's first successful penis transplant in December 2014 was not expected to be fully functional for the first two years, however he confirmed to his doctor that he and his girlfriend had conceived a child just six months after his transplant.

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ANL7a TIL hippos can defecate into rivers so much that their feces builds up and kills fish through hypoxia, or lack of oxygen. In the Mara River, about 4,000 hippos poop out more than 9 tons of dung each day. Hippo feces also leaves behind chemicals such as ammonium and sulfide, which is harmful to fish.
pY5kA TIL that there are multiple species of cotton. The most common species today came from Central America, Mexico, and the Carribean, with the other three commercially grown species from are from South America; South Asia; and Africa and Arabia. There are even Australian species of wild cotton.
p8wPb TIL that Nancy Sinatra was asked by songwriter Lee Hazlewood to sing one of her songs as if she were "a sixteen-year-old girl who fucks truck drivers". She promptly went on to reach #1 in the US, the UK, Australia, and Canada for "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'."
79nx TIL That Robin Williams actually had clauses written into his contracts for movies that a certain portion of the crew on set had to be composed of homeless people
pYxrO TIL of Nigel Richards, a tournament-Scrabble player. In 2015, despite not speaking French, Richards won the French World Scrabble Championships, after reportedly spending nine weeks studying the French dictionary. He won it again in 2018, and multiple duplicate titles from 2016.