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TIL ingesting semen can reduce the risk of breast cancer by no less than 50 percent.

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9e8m TIL Helen Keller was a radical socialist. After she expressed her socialist beliefs, news columnists who had once praised her then dismissed her stances based on her disabilities.
P1JoL TIL about Subutai also known as 'The Demon Dog of war' A Monggol general and the primary military strategist of Genghis Khan, regarded by many as the single greatest military commander in history, instrumental in the conquests of Genghis and Ögedei Khan.
yVGRp TIL: Project Orion was a project by DARPA and NASA to use nukes to propel spacecraft supported by Von Braun , the biggest design was the "Super" Orion which hoods 1080 nukes, weigh 8 million tons, and was described as an interstellar ark. However, problems included nuclear fallout on Earth.
gr7wA TIL Benjamin Franklin was fond of dating older women, (in)famously writing 8 reasons why they were better than their younger counterparts. Among them, he stated that they naturally provided birth control, were discrete, and could not be distinguished from younger women from the girdle downwards.
NXOAN TIL a study followed thousands of people, both with & without OCD, from 1973-2020 & found that those with OCD died at an earlier average age than those without it by 9 years (69 v 78). People with OCD were 230% more likely to die earlier from unnatual causes & nearly 5x more likely to die by suicide