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TIL Disney produced an educational film in 1946 called The Story of Menstruation that was the first production ever to use the word vagina

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rRj5e TIL that when people binge watch shows that they like, their brains continuously produce dopamine and can mimic a high produced from drugs.
LNyQ TIL a de-commissioned light tower 25 miles off the coast of N.C. was purchased by a private citizen and is now operated as a “rustic” B&B.
5VPR TIL that physicist Robert Lang is one of the world’s leading experts in the art and mathematics of origami. As such, his origami designs have helped in the innovations of airbag safety, heart surgery, and telescopes.
6ERB7 TIL that Colonel Sanders, founder of KFC, was buried wearing his iconic white suit and string bowtie
R7PAw TIL about the Potato Paradox, a counter-intuitive math calculation that states: If you have 100 lbs of potatoes made of 99% water and dehydrate them to be just 98% water, they would then weigh only 50 lbs.