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TIL that scientist (Dr. Robert G. Heath) at Tulane University discovered the “pleasure centers” of the brain by zapping it with electricity in the 1950s, giving a woman a 30-minute orgasm.

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wLJlP TIL that as recently as 1972, simply being outed for suffering from depression was enough to force Thomas Eagleton to step down from the US vice presidential ticket
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