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TIL Origins of masturbation are traced to primates 40 million years ago

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dbvZ TIL that a man named Armand Hammer coincidentally ended up on the board of directors for Arm & Hammer
woPJ8 TIL Euthanasia for patients with dementia is legal in Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands.
9wA6Q TIL that physicist Lawrence Langer took a nap on the Little Boy nuclear bomb. It was the only "place where there was room to lie down" while he was keeping the curious away from the bomb the night before the Enola Gay's bombing run.
xMDD TIL in 1935, the Canadian government took custody of 5 identical quintuplets fearing they’d be exploited. By 1937, Canada had made them their largest tourist attraction where they starred in movies, product ads, had dolls made after them, and had 3,000 daily visitors through exhibit glass.
jXMj TIL 29 bars in NJ were caught serving things like rubbing alcohol + food coloring as scotch and dirty water as liquor