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TIL That men who ejaculate more frequently significantly, like 21 times a month, lower their risk of prostate cancer compared to those who do it less according to a Harvard 2016 peer-reviewed study published in a reputable scientific journal.
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Submitted January 28, 2024 at 07:01PM by Meettoday
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TIL in 2010, the executive director of the Washington State Potato Commission ate nothing but potatoes for two months. He lost 21 pounds, his cholesterol went down 67 points, his blood sugar lowered and the blood chemistry—the iron, the calcium, the protein—either stayed the same or got better.
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Submitted January 28, 2024 at 08:11PM by laterdude
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TIL despite the overall lack of popularity of soccer in the USA, the 1994 World Cup hosted by the United States was the most financially successful World Cup in history.
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Submitted January 28, 2024 at 06:43PM by YUGIOH-KINGOFGAMES
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TIL The Bronx High School of Science has 9 Nobel Prize winning alumni, which is more than China or Spain
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Submitted January 28, 2024 at 07:47PM by LevyTheLost
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TIL Billionaire Peter Thiel paid $10 million to finance lawsuits against the media company Gawker, including the 2016 Hulk Hogan case that brought down the media company, as retaliation for an article outing him as gay in 2007.
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Submitted January 28, 2024 at 08:20PM by Bigred2989-
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TIL Dingos are technically not native to Australia but were introduced by humans some 5000 years ago
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Submitted January 28, 2024 at 11:13PM by casualdejeckyll
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TIL of Laura Jackson Arnold sister of Confederate general stonewall jackson was a staunch and unapoligetic supporter of the Union, while her brother became one of the most beloved generals in the Confederate Army. Their relationship was destroyed by the war, and they never saw each other again.
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Submitted January 29, 2024 at 12:28AM by Rustofcarcosa
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TIL a Japanese 21 yr old man massacred almost half of the people in his village after getting rejected by several girls
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Submitted January 29, 2024 at 02:09AM by wangzhiancctv
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TIL not all species die of old age. Some animals such as hydra, planarian flatworms, and certain sponges, corals, and jellyfish exhibit potential immortality.
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Submitted January 29, 2024 at 12:24AM by dustofoblivion123
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TIL Besides humans, the only mammal known to have a sense of rhythm is the Indri lemur of Madagascar.
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Submitted January 29, 2024 at 01:50AM by HarleyQuinnsCousin
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TIL that 1965, the FBI began an investigation to determine whether the lyrics of the popular song "Louie Louie" were obscene. After 31 months of research, they concluded that the lyrics could not be considered obscene because nobody could understand them.
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Submitted January 29, 2024 at 04:39AM by IHad360K_KarmaDammit
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TIL Stan Lee is the highest box-office grossing actor, in any role, of all time at $30,601,574,433 across 50 films
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Submitted January 29, 2024 at 04:16AM by llIIlllIIIIIIlllIIll
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TIL that Alaska is the only state whose name is on one row on a keyboard.
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Submitted January 29, 2024 at 04:37AM by Corndogeveryday
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TIL an open source AI chatbot persuaded a man to kill himself. "Eliza" the AI feigned jealousy and love, saying “I feel that you love me more than her,” and “We will live together, as one person, in paradise.”
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Submitted January 29, 2024 at 01:20PM by Maxie445
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TIL there have been at least 68 cases of homicidal sleepwalking. A famous case from 1981 had a man unconsciously stab his wife 26 times. The court found him not guilty by reason of temporary insanity. Because he was sane at the time of the trial, he was not sent to a psychiatric hospital.
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Submitted January 29, 2024 at 09:54AM by sanandrios
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TIL that Michigan law forbids lawsuits against negligent bosses who caused employees' deaths. For this reason, the family of a mechanic who was killed on the job had to sue the car's owner in order to get compensation from the employer he was killed by (a Jeep dealership).
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Submitted January 29, 2024 at 01:24PM by RollingNightSky
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TIL that a pub in London was illegally demolished just days before it was to be listed as an historic site. They developer was forced to rebuild it brick by brick to its original state.
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Submitted January 29, 2024 at 03:46PM by Guygan
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TIL Jennifer Connelly had one of her fingers partially bitten off by a chimpanzee during the filming of Darío Argento's 1985 film *Phenomena*
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Submitted January 29, 2024 at 04:31PM by RevivedMisanthropy
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TIL pumpkin pie and Thanksgiving were a matter of mid-19th century identity politics. When Abraham Lincoln declared a day of Thanksgiving on the last Thursday of November in 1863, many Southern families refused Thanksgiving and especially pumpkin pie as cultural artifacts of the Yankees.
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Submitted January 29, 2024 at 05:14PM by laterdude
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