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vPRAL TIL foot massages can lead to uterine contractions and cervical ripening in pregnant women, and can lead to preterm labor
GQNE TIL the FBI spend years trying to decipher two notes left by a murder victim who couldn’t write.
l7JXA TIL that more men than women are colorblind, not because knowing colors is considered a feminine trait, but because it is a sex-linked gene. Colorblindness is a recessive trait on the X chromosome, so men only need one bad X to be colorblind, whereas women need two.
x6mk TIL that Computers have beat man at every game but one — the ancient Chinese board game Go. It is the oldest game in the world at which man remains the undisputed champion.
aYly TIL that after Thomas Edison ripped off the first film camera from France, he used copyright laws to restrict imports of other cameras to the US. Sometimes he would use hired thugs (the Edison mafia) to violently stop people from using other cameras.