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TIL most birds in our world are monogamous

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78eP7 TIL sucking on your SO's (F) nipples can cause irregularities in periods and is also a method of (extremely unreliable) contraception. Sucking on the nipple releases the hormone prolactin, which causes the brain/body to think there is already an suckling infant and will try to delay the next.
VBQeZ TIL that Point Nemo, the point on earth that is furthest from any coast, is so remote that sometimes the closest human beings are the astronauts aboard the International Space Station as it passes overhead.
5Y8rD TIL of Justo Gallego Martinez, a 90+ year old man who built a cathedral for the last 60 decades using only scrap material he could find near the building site
oR15K TIL that the writer of 'It's All Coming Back to Me Now' sued Meat Loaf to prevent him from singing it
1aL07 TIL Ted Cassidy, who played "Lurch" on the 1964 TV show "The Addams Family," put out a record and appeared in a dance number on "Shindig"