Post * 4kp4g — Curious Curator

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TIL 100 years ago, doctors used to treat women with "hysteria" by fingering them and producing an orgasm to make a woman sane. The vibrator was invented to relieve doctors, whose fingers were frequently cramped.

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1GP4 TIL PETA made a parody game of Super Meat Boy, called Tofu Boy, and spent over $100,000 to do so; three times the budget of the original.

Wdp9 TIL that Hitler hid his relationship with Eva Braun because he believed that he was sexually attractive to women and wished to exploit this for political gain by remaining single, as he felt marriage would decrease his appeal

eJe6 TIL that Nixon didn’t want pigeon poop along the path to his inauguration, so he had $13,000 of a chemical bird repellent sprayed on trees around the area. It turned out the spray was toxic, and instead of pigeon poop, Nixon had dead pigeons lining the path to his inauguration.

rRl4o TIL in 2007, a study was done to see if women were more talkative than men. 396 individuals were strapped with voice recorders for several days. Both men and women were found to speak an average of 16,000 words per day.

W700A TIL The Red Pyramid, which is third pyramid built by Old Kingdom Pharaoh Sneferu in ca. 2575–2551 BCE, is Egypt's first "true", smooth-sided pyramid.