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TIL that for a healthy (reduced chance of cancer) prostate later in life, men are to ejaculate around 20+ times per month

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rRRVy TIL The Germans during WWII were very close to launching a V2 rocket from a submersible which would have been towed behind a U-boat. 1 submersible was created but it never was tested.
QNDvM TIL about the 1936 Literary Digest Presidential Poll which was so wrong it destroyed the magazine's credibility. It projected Republican Alf Landon to defeat Incumbent Franklin Roosevelt easily. Roosevelt ended up winning 48 states and the popular vote by 24 percentage points
rNANW TIL: Lord Minimus was a court Jester to Queen Henrietta Maria. At age 6, he hid in a 18" pie and busted out, entertaining the Queen so much, he was kept as a gift. Over the years, he didn't want to be a pet clown anymore. He dueled a royal who brought a squirt gun, killed him, and was then enslaved.
8a0BK TIL that one of the rarest coins is the 1933 Double Eagle gold coin. 433,000 minted but subsequently melted down. Officially 2 were kept but a small handful aside from that we’re smuggled out of the mint before they were melted down. One of those coins sold in 2002 for $7,590,020.
bmE7 TIL That clownfish are ‘sequential hermaphrodites’, meaning that if Finding Nemo were more accurate, Nemo’s father would’ve turned into his mother after the real mother died, Nemo would’ve become the new reproducing male, “and they would raise little incestuous Nemos together.”