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TIL in The Vagina Monologues a 13-year-old girl is raped by a 24-year old woman, and it is referred to as “a good rape” & a healing experience. When a man at a newspaper wrote an article asking why rape was only wrong when a man committed it, but woman-on-woman rape was celebrated, he was fired.

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M9lm TIL scientists have been studying Ketamine, a recreational, dissociative drug, as a cure for depression. It is often discredited by the public due to being known as a horse tranquilizer.
QPvX TIL that selective breeding creates language barriers in dogs and makes it harder for them to communicate and socialize normally. [i.e., if Fluffy keeps getting into fights at the dog park, this might be why.]
neLr7 TIL that slugs used to be used as lubricant on wheels
grnr9 TIL Kim il-Sung was raised in a family of Presbyterian Christians
jNJdj TIL President Herbert Hoover and First Lady Lou Henry Hoover were both fluent in Chinese and would speak it to each other in the White House to prevent eavesdropping.