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TIL a Japanese man Yasuo Takamatsu lost his wife in the 2011 earthquake and has not stopped looking for her body for more than 10 years and has dived more than 800 times in the ocean to retrieve her.
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TIL: Medieval doctors had many theories about STDs. The Prose Salernitan, teaches that, leper semen might leave the woman unharmed, but turns into a putrid vapor inside her which enters the next man. Others believed too much intercourse depletes you and too little causes you to swell up and die.
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TIL Albert Einstein credited the writing of 18th century philosopher David Hume --who argued that universal time independent of an observer’s viewpoint doesn’t exist -- as key to helping him formulate his theory of special relativity.