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TIL menstrual cramps are caused by the uterus contracting and blocking blood flow to the endometrium to kill the cells. (I had to know!)

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nxRr TIL that cheese can be addictive, as it contains trace amounts of naturally occuring morphine, that comes from the cow’s liver
NDNP TIL: Sioux Indians peacefully surrendered as their land was being stolen, then still were attacked by US forces in the Wounded Knee Massacre
xVYeD TIL that Chinese science fiction writer Chen Qiufan published a short story using paragraphs automatically generated by AI, based on his own writing. That story won him a literary prize in a contest moderated by an AI judge, over Nobel laureate Mo Yan
Jprv TIL there’s a brown bear on California’s state flag but the last brown bear in California was killed in 1922
LQ7gm TIL that Dean Martin and one-time porn queen, Traci Lords, were both from the Ohio river town of Steubenville, Ohio.