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dPJ9 TIL LBJ loved to reveal himself to others and was obsessed with is penis. Once when a reporter asked why we are in Vietnam, he unzipped his pants, pulled out his penis and said, “This is why.”
VMyrm TIL that here In the United States, food waste is estimated at between 30–40 percent of the food supply and that’s enough to fill a 90,000-seat stadium every single day.
rAoe TIL in the 1980s a man with severe OCD shot himself in the head in an attempt to commit suicide. Instead of killing him, the bullet destroyed the part of his brain that was responsible for his OCD, and he went on to become a straight-A college student five years later.
roWw TIL that, in medieval Europe, scales were used to weigh suspected witches to determine whether or not they should be burned at the stake
x6amo TIL that a blow to the chest at a very specific moment of the heart’s rhythm, can result in immediate cardiac arrest. The blow doesn’t even need to be enough to cause physical injury. (Repost cos my last post got deleted)