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TIL Cigarette Smoking Makes Your Penis Shrink

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5Vw5Q TIL in 1982, Sune Bergstrom won the Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine. His son Svante Pääbo, who was the result of an affair, won the same prize in 2022, despite a very distant relationship with his father. This was the 8th time a parent-child pair both received the Nobel.
Py8Z TIL JFK’s sister Rosemary Kennedy, was born mentally disabled because during her birth, the doctor was not immediately available and the nurse ordered Rose Kennedy to keep her legs closed, forcing the baby’s head to stay in the birth canal for two hours…resulting in a harmful loss of oxygen.
Oop4R TIL Bulla Felix was a Roman bandit leader active around 205–207 AD. Bulla is known for not killing his victims, stealing only some of their money, employing artists, disguising himself as Roman officials, and leading a 600 man regiment of runaway slaves and free men.
rR5oM TIL that King George V was aggressively euthanized without consent, using morphine and cocaine, and his last words were "god damn you"
jmEp TIL that the first e-commerce transaction was in the 70’s for cannabis between students from MIT and Stanford