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TIL There is sexually explicit cave art (NSFW)

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xYok TIL 95% of the body’s “happiness hormone, serotonin, is found in the bowels.
4X6W5 TIL: Donkey Kong not developed by Nintendo but rather a subcontracting company that also made Sega's Congo Bongo and Zaxxon. They successfully sued after Nintendo use their source code to create Donkey Kong Jr. without them.
wDmP TIL that dolphins have been known to masturbate by wrapping their penises with live wriggling eels.
1a5j7 TIL of 'Soy Cuba' (I Am Cuba), a 1964 Soviet-directed propaganda film that backfired by making capitalism look too appealing. It was later rediscovered by Hollywood, and its groundbreaking film techniques inspired scenes in Goodfellas and Boogie Nights.
grlZ9 TIL the Beatles’ record sales helped fund research that led to the development of CT scans (computerized tomography)