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TIL that a man lived with a penis on his arm for 6 years
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TIL that many European maps during the Middle Ages had the East on top instead of the North, thus "to orient" meant to align the map to the East, the Orient.
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TIL Bruce Lee did not die from a faulty prop gun on set, he died in his sleep due to an allergic reaction to the main ingriedient in the painkiller Equagesic.
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TIL of 'male menstruation' that was considered a normal part of growing up in twentieth century Egyptian culture but was actually due to an endemic parasitic bladder infection from schistosomes causing bloody urine.
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TIL The Shanghai heroin trade in the 1920s was dominated by two men. One was Chief of Police, the other was head of the government Anti-Opium Board.
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TIL: That two days before Britain declared war on Germany in 1939, the BBC was taken off air with little warning, the last programme to be shown being a Mickey Mouse cartoon. The government was concerned that the VHF transmissions would act as a a beacon to enemy aircraft that could bomb London.