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TIL: Before video game addiction, people were blaming Dungeons and Dragons for suicide and teen satanism.

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XLx8 TIL two patients taking the anti-depressant ‘clomipramine’ reported the side effect that every time they yawned they had an orgasm.
Y76LA TIL: Self replicating probes or spacecraft, also called Von Neumann probes was a concept theorized by the mathematician. He argued that this is the most efficient method of space exploration/mining as they can adapt. The concept has been used in various media such as Mass Effect, Star Trek, etc.
jNR0v Today I learned poison dart frogs make great pets. So long as they are bred in captivity (so as not to diminish population) They get their poison from their diet in the wild so they are harmless in captivity and can live over a decade!
rY4W TIL researchers printed out a beating mouse heart using a modified printer with cells in the ink cartridge.
9Y6em TIL that a 17-year-old female pitcher, Jackie Mitchell, struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in a single exhibition game, causing them to void her baseball contract.