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TIL antidepressant drugs kill sex drive and dopamine, which kills romantic love.

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mO7p TIL In 1770, the British Parliament passed a law condemning lipstick, stating that “women found guilty of seducing men into matrimony by a cosmetic means could be tried for witchcraft.”
GAPPG TIL of the fate of Mr. Cheeseface, the dog featured on the cover of National Lampoon magazine with a gun to his head. He was actually shot and killed by an unknown assailant a few years later on a farm in rural Vermont
l7OJN TIL that we should not feed bread to birds on a regular basis or as their regular diet. It provides little to no nutritional value, which may also lead to airplane wing, also known as angel wing disease.
4k9OX TIL that the Statue of Liberty’s torch has been closed off since 1916, after shrapnel from an explosion caused by Germans to sabotage munitions for the Allied powers.
nnv9 TIL Corgi’s are (still used in some parts of the USA) used to herd cattle as they are too short to be kicked by cows.