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TIL May 28th is International Masturbation day to mark the day a sex positive Surgeon General was fired.

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69Ay8 TIL: TIL that marshmallows were originally made from a plant called marshmallow (mallows that grew in marshes). The root of the marshmallow plant is high in mucilage, which is a type of gel that gives marshmallows their chewy texture. Today, marshmallows are no longer made from the plant.
pXgQ TIL famous murder mystery author Anne Perry writes from experience, as she herself spent five years in prison at age fifteen for murdering her friend’s mother
mkZv TIL when corn was first utilized by colonists and Europeans, they ignored the Native American’s process of first treating it with lime-water, which makes available the corn’s niacin to the body. As a result of their dependence on the crop, hundreds of thousands died of Pellagra, a niacin deficiency.
b9DWQ TIL Comedian Eddie Izzard has performed stand-up in French, German, Spanish, Russian and Arabic.
loB6A TIL Charles Dickens only worked 9am to 2pm and wrote his 28 books and over 200 essays without working longer than 5 hours a day.