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TIL “A woman’s sex drive begins to plummet once she is in a secure relationship”

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xVX1k TIL in 1966 the US explored dropping a nuclear bomb on Hanoi to end the Vietnam War. One of the biggest concerns by the US was that protests would force Japan to close US military facilities in its country.
o0PR TIL Issac Newton called atheism “senseless” and warned against using the law of gravity to view the universe as a mere machine, saying, “This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent Being.”
1amMO TIL Whoopi Goldberg is the only person in the world to have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony, and Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Award
XrP6 TIL If you earn more than US$21,000 a year, you are part of the richest 4% on the planet.
a8A5Z TIL The French engineer Henri Dupuy de Lôme built the first steam powered warship and the first ironclad warship. Other works by Lôme include airships and an early electric submarine.