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TIL - Masturbating or having sex regularly can lower your risk of death by coronary artery disease.

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9YOEr TIL of Mother Featherlegs, a prostitute from Wyoming named so for her frilly lace underwear. She was murdered by her partner "Dangerous Dick" Davis in 1879. There is a monument to her near Lusk, WY - called the the only monument in the United States to a prostitute.
wlgE TIL penguins can drink salt water because they have a supraorbital gland that filters excess salt from the bloodstream. The salt is excreted in a concentrated fluid from the nasal passages.
ZJa4 TIL ten of the last eleven Summer Olympics have caused an economic downturn in the host country. The exception: Atlanta.
ADyA4 TIL the fez hat (made famous by the Ottoman Empire) didn't go out of style due to lack of interest. Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II (1800s) made them a requirement as he wanted to replace turbans. The fez was considered more modern. It was later banned in 1925 by Kemal Atatürk to modernize the country.
vOMj TIL Bob Marley’s “No Woman, No Cry” lists V. Ford as the songwriter so that the royalty checks could be used to run a soup kitchen.