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TIL: The opposite of premature ejaculation is a condition known as retarded ejaculation.

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vPZBx TIL that in 1982, 28-year-old Vladimir Smirnoff, ranked world #1 in fencing, was killed at the World Fencing Championships when a broken foil pierced his mask, entered his eye socket and penetrated his frontal lobe. The incident is the reason why fencing uniforms now include Kevlar as standard.
R5e6a TIL about another wild incident in the somewhat chaotic history of 1970s California: The Chowchilla Bus Kidnapping. In a crack-brained scheme, 26 kids and a bus driver were kidnapped, buried alive in a truck trailer, and held for ransom. They escaped after 16 hours by digging their way out.
Z8DoG TIL Marines called live customer support for their Barrett M-107 rifle while engaged in a firefight.
6dXX TIL on this day, Congress passed the Sedition Act of 1798, making it a federal crime to publish false, scandalous or malicious writing about the U.S. government. President John Adams later signed it into law.
KOkAR TIL some lab employees at CERN, the largest particle physics laboratory in the world, carried out a “prank” where they staged a human sacrifice in front of their statue of shiva