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TIL: Vaginal Steaming is used as an alternative health treatment in Africa and Central America. It involves smoking the vag by sitting above fire or hot coals. Side effects include 2nd degree burns, allergic reactions, and infection. There is no evidence it works. Gwyneth Paltrow reviewed it.

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KoQQ TIL Walt Disney’s mood swings were so unpredictable that employees were advised to call the security guard to see how he was feeling whenever he arrived at the studio. If he was in a particularly bad mood, Walt was said to be wearing his ‘bear suit’.
oVl8 TIL that the United States’ highest scoring Ace, Dick Bong, considered his gunnery accuracy to be poor and on one occasion actually collided with his target, which he claimed as a “probable” victory.
lJMK TIL in 1995 drug giant GlaxoSmithKline gathered over one hundred black and hispanic orphans, including toddlers and babies, to test the “toxicity” of their AIDS medication on them. They continued to do this for nearly ten years.
eLLb TIL the song “Red Red Wine” was written by Neil Diamond in ‘67. The band UB40 covered it in '83 in a light reggae style and it reached #1 on the Billboard 100. Diamond has stated that it is one of his favorite covers and he often performs the song in the UB40 style instead of the original version.
wr5J TIL: Nintendo made a hands free controller for the NES, the A & B buttons were activated by blowing & sucking, while the D pad was controlled with the users tongue.