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TIL that squirting is MOSTLY just urine. A 2015 study found that all their participants showed noticeable bladder filling before squirting through ultrasonographic bladder monitoring, and then demonstrated that their bladders were emptied post-squirting.
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Submitted August 18, 2023 at 06:05PM by -spicerack
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TIL Malcolm Brenner claims to have had sex with a female dolphin named Dolly in the 1970s, and believes it was consensual.
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Submitted August 18, 2023 at 05:59PM by WARROVOTS
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TIL the highest temperature ever reached is 4 trillion Celsius degrees. Scientists used a giant atom smasher to reach it for a few milliseconds. It was so hot that even protons and neutrons melted. They believe a similar temperature was reached during the milliseconds that followed the Big Bang.
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Submitted August 18, 2023 at 06:22PM by dustofoblivion123
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TIL Hiram Bingham wasn’t the first to rediscover Machu Picchu. Peruvian farmer and explorer Agustín Lizárraga had arrived 9 yrs earlier, leaving an innoscription "A. Lizárraga 1902." Sadly, he died one year after Bingham’s arrival, and his innoscription was erased by Bingham for "preservation reasons."
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Submitted August 18, 2023 at 07:15PM by explowaker
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TIL that at least 4 billion people across the globe wear glasses, and 75% of adults worldwide rely on some sight correction product.
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Submitted August 18, 2023 at 07:58PM by Moto_Rouge
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TIL that a 2017 McDonald's commercial was pulled after being slammed by numerous complaints as exploitative. The commercial featured a boy who is talking with his mom and trying to find something in common with his late father. At the end he finally finds something - they both liked the Filet-O-Fish
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Submitted August 18, 2023 at 08:06PM by Sandstorm400
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TIL that by the time Joe Fraizer defeated Muhammad Ali in 1971, Fraizer was legally blind in one eye. He used his quick reflexes to fool eye tests, allowing him to continue to box.
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Submitted August 18, 2023 at 09:38PM by OnAFalseErrand
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TIL that the term "rooster" for a male chicken was introduced in the 18th century specifically as a euphemism to avoid the sexual connotation of the the original term "cock."
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Submitted August 18, 2023 at 10:40PM by cjustinc
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TIL the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz" initially lost money at the box office. It wasn't until a rerelease in 1949 that its studio finally earned a profit on the film.
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Submitted August 18, 2023 at 10:25PM by lurking_quietly
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TIL: Woden was an Anglo-Saxon god from which our day of the week Wednesday is named after. Woden had a career in curing horses and carrying off the dead, and Wednesday is his day (Woden’s day). Various spellings—wodnesdaeg, Weodnesdei, Wenysday, wonysday, Weddinsday have been used
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Submitted August 19, 2023 at 12:07AM by BigfootDynamite
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TIL Actor Kurt Russell first reported the famous Phoenix Lights UFO sighting, in which thousands of Phoenix residents all claim to have seen a UFO
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Submitted August 19, 2023 at 01:14AM by Admirable-Pepper-641
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TIL: the actor that played the mailman in Cheers is 4th in all time box office returns amongst actors
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Submitted August 19, 2023 at 01:54AM by keiths31
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TIL that the snus pack size is exactly the size of an ice hockey puck, because it was developed for ice hockey players, to fit in the puck pockets.
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Submitted August 18, 2023 at 10:58PM by jonasbinger
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TIL That in response to a lawsuit, hackers from the Anonymous group took PlayStation network offline for 23 days and leaked the creditcard informations of 77 million users
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Submitted August 19, 2023 at 02:31AM by deckartcain
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TIL Goldman Sachs released a report questioning whether manufacturing cures is a "sustainable business model"
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Submitted August 19, 2023 at 04:58AM by jfsklafjl
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TIL: The current estimated time that it would take to free fall to the center of the earth is 38 minutes and 11 seconds.
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Submitted August 19, 2023 at 04:44AM by f-150Coyotev8
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TIL: Rich people have their own apps. For shopping they use James Edition, which sells everything from jets and yachts to a chair made out of chrome AK-47s. For Instagram, there's "Rich Kids" which cost $1k/mo. For dating, they have "Luxy" which can ban you if you're too poor or ugly.
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Submitted August 19, 2023 at 07:23AM by Flares117
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TIL the death of George Reeves, the "original Superman" in the 1950s, was not from jumping out a window thinking he actually was superhuman as rumoured, but by gunshot to the head suicide.
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Submitted August 19, 2023 at 06:14AM by gonejahman
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TIL Grover Cleveland first met his future wife while she was still an infant, and he bought her her first baby carriage.
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Submitted August 19, 2023 at 01:57AM by jkm97
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TIL that even though the Minions from “Despicable Me” speak a fictitious language, they are re-dubbed for each language the films are released in so that their speech patterns are recognizable to the audience.
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Submitted August 18, 2023 at 11:33PM by [deleted]
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TIL in 1837 a blacksmith and tool maker in Illinois was gaining attention over his innovations to the plow. His self cleaning steel headed plow tilled the tough midwest soil with ease and aided the migration into the Great Plain. That blacksmith's name was John Deere.
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Submitted August 19, 2023 at 09:14AM by shaka_sulu
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