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TIL the drug Cabergoline allows men to easily achieve multiple orgasms by inhibiting the hormone prolactin

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9Yb7Q TIL that Human milk contains components that are indigestible to human infants. Instead, these components seem to have evolved specifically to feed important gut bacteria.
grEL9 TIL that Yosemite Sam and the Little Man (from Pink Panther) are both based on the same person.
gGeb TIL that during American Civil War some soldier’s wounds glowed blue; soldier’s whose wounds glowed had better chance of surviving, and so the glow was called “Angel’s Glow”. Now it is known that the luminescence is due to bacteria that produce antibiotics and that live in nematodes
vPYLR TIL Kendall Myers and his wife spied on the U.S. for Cuba for 30 years inside the U.S. State Department until they were arrested in their 70s. They never took a penny for their work. They simply didn’t like how the U.S. “treated” Cuba.
J88 TIL NFL player LaVar Arrington was named after Star Trek and Reading Rainbow actor, Levar Burton.