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TIL Slimmer women's waist is associated with better erectile function in men independent of age

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WEBd TIL Robert Ballard’s mission to find the Titanic, was actually a secret Cold War mission to find and investigate wrecked nuclear submarines Thresher and Scorpion. They finished earlier, so they spent the extra time looking for the Titanic and found it.
OGDAX TIL that the USA only has 10 actual fjords, of which 7 are in Alaska, 2 in Washington, and 1 in New York. Norway has 1,190 fjords.
XAjR TIL: The first successfully cloned cat was named CopyCat. They saw an opportunity and they took it.
rAQw TIL the number of Americans killed in Chicago since 2001 is 2.5 times that of Americans killed in Afghanistan since 2001
loGW5 TIL that one of the reasons the Piltdown Man hoax, the supposed missing link between ape and man found in Britain, fooled so many was because many European scientists, especially Britons, wanted to believe that the earliest humans came from Europe and not from Africa due to their prejudices.