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TIL that a recent study found that women remember penises as being larger than they really were/are.

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rN7y TIL your brain shuts down your vision when you turn your head quickly, to prevent motion blur. This is why films like “Cloverfield” make people feel sick.
KYw6Q TIL that Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor had an extramarital sexual relationship with his own step-grandmother, Germaine de Foix, who was one of his many mistresses. Charles later married his first cousin, Isabella of Portugal. His sister, Eleanor, married Isabella's father and her uncle, King Manuel.
mX8Y TIL - Somebody designed a candle that recycles itself
jNdJn TIL of a supposed sunken city off the coast of Cuba that was found in 2001: it's over 2000 feet below the surface of the ocean, and has what some surmise from sonar images and footage to be pyramids and roads
R7ax4 TIL the canonical reason for most of the alien races to be humanoid in Star Trek is an ancient humanoid species seeding the oceans of many worlds with DNA codes 4.5 billion years before the start of the series, directing the evolution of life towards a physical pattern similar to their own.