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BO4K TIL That when men don’t masturbate for 7 days their testosterone levels increase by 45.7%
4jOo TIL a Cleveland woman was ordered by a judge to stand on a corner during rush hour on two days holding a sign that read “Only an idiot would drive on the sidewalk to avoid a school bus”, after notoriously disregarding the law and laughing at the charges.
e0Nn5 TIL When 117 year old Marie-Louise Meilleur became the world's oldest person, she was confined to her bedroom, and she could only hear when people shouted directly into her right ear. One of her sons was also living in the same nursing home, and her oldest living daughter was 90
v1lj4 TIL that in 2007, a group of researchers tried treating Arachnophobia without the use of any spiders, but by showing arachnophobes images with spider-like features. After the treatment, some test subjects were comfortable petting a tarantula in a terrarium.
kbr5 TIL IKEA products have names because the company’s dyslexic founder has an easier time remembering proper names. Also, those names follow set rules.