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TIL Masturbation Prevents Cystitis, Diabetes and Prostate Cancer

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J8AV TIL that the fastest 9-year-old today could have won bronze at the 100m sprint at the 1896 olympics.
VMO44 TIL In 1912, Leonardo Torres y Quevedo invented a chess-playing machine that could solve a king and rook vs king endgame. It didn't always deliver mate in the fewest number of moves, nor always within the 50-move rule limit but it would checkmate the opponent every time.
VM8l0 TIL the two holes on on a crocodile’s snout aren’t actually it’s nostrils. They are spaces that allow the croc’s bottom teeth to poke through so that they can comfortably close their jaw.
W7dld TIL that nuclear bomb survivors in Japan (Hibakusha) were extremely societally discriminated against when searching a spouse or a job, due to the public considering them contagious or “damaged”.
Rwaj TIL: The worlds oldest veteran is 108, drinks whiskey every morning, smokes cigars, and drives widows to church on Sunday.