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TIL that the leading theory for why penis heads look like mushrooms is because “it’s a good shape for scooping out other men’s semen” — aptly named the Semen Displacement Hypothesis

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60ym TIL in 1947, James Hanes, the hosiery magnate who started the Hanes brand, helped found the Human Betterment League of North Carolina, driving the eugenics movement in North Carolina, which sterilized 7,600 people who were deemed unworthy of having children.
WmYA TIL James Cameron made the movie Titanic to get a dive to the shipwreck funded by the movie studio; not because he particularly wanted to make the movie.
VOZD TIL Salvation Army and Goodwill have almost singlehandedly crippled Africa’s clothing industry
Wkl6B TIL that there were two versions of the horror movie Dracula (1931) filmed at the same time. An English version (the Bela Lugosi classic) was filmed during the day and at night, a different set of actors filmed a Spanish version using the exact the same sets.
La8d TIL when he was 7, Vin Diesel broke into a New York theater with his brother in order to vandalize it. When the pair was caught, instead of calling the police, the artistic director offered them roles in an upcoming show, therefore starting Diesel’s acting career