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TIL that the urine of postmenopausal women was used as infertility treatment (menotropins) since they contained higher quantities of specific hormones.

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yMyX TIL that it takes 45 minutes to take a poop in space.
mxDAE TIL of the Hmong people, who communicate by whistling - the valleys of the Himalayas they live in make for ideal transmission, sometimes carried as far as 8km. They even perform whistling courtship ceremonies, and once in a relationship, lovers can make up their own ‘secret’ syllables!
6EnnZ TIL the phrase ‘Pull yourself up by your bootstraps’ originated as an absurdist euphemism meant to be sarcastic
8ePdX TIL that there were only 21 days between the first atomic bomb test on July 16th and bombing Hiroshima on August 6th in the summer of 1945
DQ1yD TIL that humans first reached Australia around 65,000 Years ago.