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TIL that eating nuts improves your sperm count and quality

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bPLa TIL There is a German beer with the registered trademark “Fucking Hell”, where Fucking refers to a Village in Austria and Hell is a german sort of Lager.
OoR4Y TIL the Khlysty, a Russian Christian sect, would engage at the end of their services in "group sinning" (a frenzied sexual orgy), to purify themselves from the lusts of the flesh. They believed that salvation required total repentance, which was far more achievable for one who had truly transgressed
0dgRA TIL the ankle–brachial index is the ratio of the blood pressure at the ankle to the blood pressure in the upper arm. Measurements are taken when the person is lying down, face upwards on a table without the head or extremities dangling over the edges. It's used to check for peripheral artery disease
R70bj TIL that last year a bug-loving 8-year-old in Canada who was teased at school for her unusual hobby ended up co-authoring a research paper after the scientific community took her under their wing.
YvEx TIL: In Seattle Washington there is a ghost coke machine still in use that no one has ever seen filled but always has pop and the price has gone up from 55 cents to 75 cents over the years