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TIL Bacteriophages are viruses that prey on bacteria and archaea, and some hope that phage therapy might one day be a useful alternate to antibiotics as antibiotic resistance becomes a bigger problem in treating deadly diseases

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j6K1R TIL Operation Midnight Climax was a program by the CIA in the mid 50s that used prostitutes to lure unsuspecting men to apartments in New York and San Francisco to drug them with LSD to test whether the combination of sex and LSD might influence the men to reveal information the government wanted.
loGKN TIL Tunak Tunak Tun was only made because critics said Daler Mehndi's songs were only popular due to dancing women in the videos. Tunak became his most popular song ever and the video was just him in front of a bad CGI greenscreen.
Z80Xv TIL Laboring women of the Huichol tribe in Mexico held onto a string that was tied to her husband's testicles. "With each painful contraction, she would give the string a yank so that the man could share the burden."
0w4xN TIL in Eastern European folklore, many vampires suffered from OCD, specifically having strong compulsions to count. Bags of rice or seed were often placed at graves to occupy them at night by couting the grains. This is where the inspiration for Count Von Count from Sesame Street came from.
wKW TIL tennis players’ grunts offer the grunter an advantage. Not because the noise is distracting, but because it covers up the sound the racket makes when it hits the ball, making it difficult to judge how hard it’s hit and with what spin the ball has.