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TIL humans neurologically enters adulthood at the age of 32 on average

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oRJjo 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.
WkyXB TIL a Fallujah Marine veteran was left with a broken tibia after being brutally beaten by an active Air Force member. The airman suspected the Marine of stolen valor and (ironically) didn't recognize a non-active military I.D. The airman was never found.
9wL5G TIL that the incorrect usage of an apostrophe in english for a plural noun (e.g. "burger's") is called a greengrocer's apostrophe.
M7eBa TIL an octopus mermaid (Such as Ursula from Disney's The Little Mermaid) is called a "Cecaelia", a modern term derived primarily from a black-and-white comic in Vampirella Magazine from the early 1970s featuring a woman/octopus hybrid character named Cilia.
Q8Wp TIL that the U.S has less than 5% of the worlds population yet nearly 25% of the worlds prison and jail population