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TIL in 1967, Singapore experienced a mass panic over shrinking genitals; hundreds of men ran to hospitals convinced their penises were retracting into their bodies due to “genital retraction syndrome”

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5VLDk TIL a 2023 study examined the cognitive ability scores of nearly 400,000 Americans between 2006-2018 and found that over that 13-year period, Americans' IQ scores had dropped in three out of the four cognitive domains included in the analysis.
QJwn9 TIL an enormous Buddhist relic known as the Buddha's Begging Bowl, weighing 350 to 400 kg, is kept in the Kabul museum. When the Taliban captured Kabul, they destroyed all other Buddhist relics except the bowl, since at some point Quranic verses were inscribed on it.
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WwLL TIL the best female sniper of all time was a 24 year old Russian WWII soldier named Lyudmila Pavlichenko. She left university in Ukraine during her senior year to start “hunting Nazis” after the Third Reich invaded the country.