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TIL Research shows that couples who slept naked felt happier in their relationships

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WJ1N TIL that women are the main proponents of “slut-shaming”; employing it as an aggressive strategy to deter their more attractive female rivals.
5V9Qr TIL that Rüppell's griffon vulture has the highest documented altitude of any bird at 36k feet. Unfortunately this information was discovered after a Boeing 747 took the bird into the engine over western Africa.
Bg7lL TIL Labi Siffre denied Dr Dre the rights to use his sample on Eminem's "My Name Is" until homophobic and sexist lyrics were removed. In an interview, he said "Dissing the victims of bigotry – women as bitches, homosexuals as faggots – is lazy writing. Diss the bigots not their victims."
OaVe Today I learned Jimi Hendrix had synesthesia; He could literally see the music
W7XXd TIL: Due to the Flint Michigan crisis, a study dubbed the Truth Fairy Project was done on baby teeth and the exposure to lead. Baby teeth provides easy to use info on lead levels. This led to evidence that there is no such thing as a "safe" threshold of exposure.