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TIL when there's merely a suspicion of testicular cancer in a man, a testicle must be removed in almost every case, so a biopsy can be performed after the fact, and doctors can assess if the cancer has spread.

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lo84a TIL Martin Luther King, Jr., was actually born Michael King, Jr. His father, also a minister, changed his and his son's name to Martin Luther when he was five, after the famed Church Reformer.
8aAv4 TIL on 1st April 1996 Taco Bell spent $300k on ads claiming that they purchased the Liberty Bell and named it Taco Liberty Bell, and achieved $25 million in free publicity. The White House Press Secretary got on the joke, saying the Lincoln Memorial was turned by Ford into Lincoln-Mercury Memorial.
6ENA7 TIL Robert Williams, a Ford assembly line worker, is the first human in history to have been killed by a robot. He was hit by a robotic arm in 1979.
OG8QX TIL: To even be considered small, the effect size of the D.A.R.E. program would need to be 20 times bigger than it was.
69Q9Z TIL That Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Don Sutton was on five World Series teams and was never on a winning team.