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TIL there was a lost parody of the Iliad called the Diliad.

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7rBZZ TIL a woman's clitoris actually looks kinda like a space penguin when the whole thing is properly imaged, and that father of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud hated it, calling it an "infantile organ." And also that Freud invented the vaginal orgasm, which apparently is not actually a thing.
d8MnB TIL of Heart Attack Grill, a Las Vegas restaurant where people over 350 lbs. eat free. 3 people have died while eating there, and the only vegan option on their menu is cigarettes.
YMBW TIL that patients who are informed what drug they are going to be trialling, and are then placed on a placebo, can experience adverse reactions as well as positive outcomes. They can also become addicted to placebo medication.
YprB7 TIL In April 2015, Dan Price announced that over the next three years, his company would raise the pay of all employees to at least $70,000 per year, stating this was the minimum needed to secure them from financial hardship when hit by unexpected expenses.
R7aV9 TIL the world’s oldest pool of water was found 2 miles down a Canadian mineshaft and dated at ~2 billion years old. By observing the sulphate in the water, researchers were also able to confirm that single-celled organisms had inhabited the pool at some point.