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TIL: There is an actual non joke study which studies the influence of CUMS in male rats. CUMS stood for Chronic Unpredictable Mild Stress. The CUMS rats were deprived of water, food, and had their cage tilted with white noise and 2 stranger rats with them to study how it effects their libido.

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no0P TIL Citizens of the UK have the right to see CCTV footage of themselves and get a copy within 40 days of asking for it.
5YPQ9 TIL that some 430,000 years ago, high in the Atapuerca Mountains of northern Spain, a lethal assault was committed. The victim, a young adult Neanderthal, received two blows to the head, just above the left eye.
br64 TIL Homosexuality was legalized in South Australia after police drowned a gay man. A second victim was rescued by a passing serial killer, but refused to name the Police in court out of fear. The change of law led to mass panic and people fled the coast fearing God’s wrath would bring a tsunami.
0nnM TIL the term “gerrymandering” derives from Gov. Elbridge Gerry who in 1812 redrew the Massachusetts senatorial districts to favor his Federalist Party. One of these redrawn districts looked like a salamander, thus Gerry + salamander = gerrymander
x6NKg TIL a new measurement type – Smoots