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TIL: Before Deep Throat, Linda Lovelace starred in a bestiality film.

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8K4 TIL Pitbulls were once commonly used as babysitters
yV5mX TIL one major concern of establishing human settlements on Mars is pregnancy. It is likely that members of craft may engage in sex due to their stressful and isolated environment, and it is still not fully known how the environment in a spacecraft would affect the development of a child aboard.
N9bE TIL that the beard of Tutankhamun’s golden mask fell off during the cleaning process in the Egyptian Museum in 2014. The workers used epoxy glue to reattach the beard, but since that was not the professional method and permanent damage was done to the mask they were prosecuted for this in 2016.
R7Jn4 TIL that the white mustache-looking skin above a pigeon's beak is called a wattle, and that it mainly serves to release excess heat from the bird's body. It's actually a trait that many birds have, such as the red piece of skin below a rooster's neck.
JYOxB TIL: "Semantic satiation" is a psychological phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, who then perceives the speech as repeated meaningless sounds