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TIL The earliest records for intentional castration to produce eunuchs are from the Sumerian city of Lagash in the 2nd millennium BCE.

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kJvLm TIL that in all 6 elections of the Greater London Council (1965-1986), the leading national opposition party won, with the party in government coming second
E1LDV TIL most people can’t read in their dreams, and the few who do tend to be writers—especially poets.
6KPl TIL that the inventor of the Kaiten manned suicide torpedo, Lt. Hiroshi Kuroki, was killed during one of the first training missions. When his torpedo was raised, a note was found that both sent respects to his family, and detailed the cause of the accident and how to fix the defect.
WkEmX TIL the late Nintendo Executive Gunpei Yokoi who invented and designed the original Control Pad, the Virtual Boy, the Game Boy, Metroid and Kid Icarus was originally hired as a maintenance man in 1965.
5VKrr TIL numerical contractions are words abbreviated by the number of letters between the first and last letter such as i18n, a11y, p13n, k8s, etc.