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TIL that depression can cause sexual dysfunction and lower or eliminate sexual and orgasmic pleasure.

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rREAw TIL that retired workers in Dublin Distilleries would get a bottle of whiskey every month as part of their pension.
QJvDE TIL The Smother Brother's Comedy Hour featured The Who in 1967. The performance ended with The Who destroying their instruments, aided by pyrotechnics. Keith Moon accidentally received 3x the normal explosives. The explosion sent cymbal shrapnel cut into Moon's arm and singed Townshend's hair.
GEv7 TIL the Parthenon is in such bad condition because occupying Turkish forces used it as a powder magazine which exploded when hit by a Venetian shell in 1687.
EgMyx TIL about Ättestupa, cliffs in Sweden where legend says elderly people in ancient Norse times would leap to their deaths in a ritual of senicide
8xOZ TIL in 2007 a news anchor refused to report on Paris Hilton in the midst of the Iraq war. She ended up burning one copy of the report and shredding another, while still on the air.