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TIL Earlier mammals like cats, rabbits, and ferrets experience endocrine changes during mating - usually from clitoral stimulation during intercourse - that induce ovulation. In humans, orgasms lead to similar endocrine changes but are not required for ovulation.

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b9ml4 TIL Nikolai Vavilov a botanist/agronomist that starved to death in prison to defend the importance of biodiversity in agriculture.
woVM8 TIL Most of the iodine in dairy comes from iodine-based sanitizers used to clean the cow teats between milking. This residual iodine then seeps into the milk.
v1YAR TIL Taco Bell has locations in 22 countries including China, Iceland and Guam but none in Mexico. They tried but failed twice to start locations there. Mexicans had trouble identifying what certain items were because of their inauthentic names. They had to rebrand the “Crunchy Taco” to a “Tacostada”
7Pwb TIL there is a a food substitute intended to supply all of a human body’s daily nutritional needs, known as Soylent
gMDgD TIL that Tournai is the only Belgian city to be ruled by England. It was under English control from 1513 to 1519.