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TIL a Korean man fell in love and eventually married a pillow with an anime character printed on it

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ne1Wb TIL That Susan Bennett, the voice of Siri, also was the voice of many other things such as the voice of the public address system at Delta Airlines, or for television advertisements for many major companies like Ford, McDonald's, and the Home Depot.
8a7rL TIL the first Grand Wizard of the KKK later changed his mind and argued in defense of racial equality
a8QKM TIL that in 1572, Tycho Brahe spotted a "new star" that briefly outshone Venus and was seen in daylight. This supernova was exploding around 9,000 light-years away, 300 million times brighter than the Sun, and visible naked-eye for 16 months. It shattered medieval ideas that the stars never change.
bbgE TIL James Barry (born 1789-1799 as Margaret Ann Bulkleychose) chose to live as a man so that he could become a surgeon. With his sex only being discovered after his death, Barry was the first qualified female British surgeon known, anticipating the next female physician by over 50 years.
78dAr TIL In the Pacific Northwest there are sea wolves which are a unique subspecies of grey wolf which have a semi-aquatic lifestyle, including a diet that is almost entirely marine-based coming almost entirely from the ocean, and whose DNA differentiates them from inland wolves.