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TIL .3% of women experience an orgasm when giving birth

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kO4Xm TIL there is a woman from Oklahoma who needed her leg amputated due to cancer, so she kept the limb, had it skeletonized, and now runs an Instagram account largely dedicated to taking photos of/with a former portion of her own skeleton.
LQee0 TIL that the Bald Eagle, long a symbol of the United States, was not officially proclaimed the National Bird until yesterday
N7kkJ Til of afro turks, people of Zanj (Bantu) descent in Turkey, the current pop is now mixed with the rest of the population.
wYJ8 TIL That as a peasant of the feudal age you had no right to mill you own grain. Millwrights would come to your house and break your milling equipment to enforce their monopoly. This is the reason many quern-stones are found in broken condition.
R7Vra TIL There is no such thing as an "alpha" in a wolf pack. Wolf packs operate more like human families: there is no defined sense of rank, parents are in charge until the young grow up, younger wolves don't overthrow an "alpha" to become the new leader, and social dominance fights are situational