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TIL It was found that men infected with toxoplasmosis found the smell of cat urine to be more pleasant than men who were not infected

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xavk TIL Akon owns a diamond mine in South Africa
WkmBB TIL that in the 1960s the CIA paid climbers to put nuclear powered spy devices in the Himalayas to monitor Chinese nuclear weapons tests. Some of the devices were left unattended and were subsequently lost.
avYA TIL blowing air into woman’s vagina while she is pregnant can be potentially fatal.
LDaV TIL that in 1962 scientists injected an elephant with a dose of LSD that was 3000 times a typical human dose. Five minutes later the elephant trumpeted, fell down, shit itself, went into a perpetual brain seizure, and then died an hour and forty minutes later.
JY4ok TIL that after its infamous explosion in 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant reported a fire in 1991; and it wasn’t until the year 2000 that the power station was fully shut down.