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TIL: Semen acts as a natural antidepressant for women. “In our studies, women who have unprotected sex have lower levels of depression, as measured on the gold standard evaluation tool, than those who have the same amount of sex with a condom.”

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9Y9A7 TIL Babylonians were using a rudimentary form of calculus to calculate Jupiter’s displacement each day along the ecliptic, the path that the sun appears to trace through the stars. Historians had thought such techniques did not emerge until more than 1400 years later, in 14th century Europe.
WkNgo TIL That in 1974, Time magazine researchers learned, and informed Jack Nicholson (30 at that time), that his sister was actually his mother, and his mother was his grandmother.
mxAry TIL that Stan Lee often took credit for other's work and let himself be mythologized by the media by neglecting to correct them when they gave him sole credit for works that were a team effort.
woKZ1 Today I learned: The Capuchin Monkey is the most intelligent of the American Monkeys.
4XOJ6 TIL: Dutch cyclist Maarten de Jonge was scheduled to fly on Malaysia Air flights MH17 (which was shot down over Ukraine) and MH370 (which disappeared) . Both times, he changed his plans and booked a different flight.