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TIL people used to say “bow-chicka-wow-wow” because porn was often accompanied with funky music in the 80’s and 90’s.

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VBV40 TIL Theodore Hook & the Berners Street hoax
XjLj TIL the Led Zeppelin song “Gallows Pole” is a version of a centuries-old folk song. Traditionally the main character bribes the executioner to let them go. In the Zeppelin version the executioner takes the money but carries through with the execution.
awdR0 TIL a survey of almost 7,000 people found that people felt more energetic and positive after watching cat videos. The pleasure they got from the videos was greater than the guilt of procrastinating. Dog videos work, too.
VBjKk TIL In 2014 Facebook conducted a psychology experiment on 700,000 of its users without their knowledge to gauge if "exposure to emotions led people to change their own posting behaviours".
0dJlR TIL Bin Laden wrote his last and final will shortly after 9/11 and in it he urged his children to not join al-Qaeda and to not continue Jihad.