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OGb04 TIL 39-year-old Gretchen Molannen committed suicide in 2012 after struggling for 17 years with a rare sexual disorder called persistent genital arousal disorder (PGAD), which is characterized by persistent, unwanted genital sensation or arousal that can be devastating for sufferers.
ge0L TIL: “For the health of strippers,” Louisiana tried to pass a bill limiting strippers’ age and weight to under 28 yo and under 160 lbs.
BgZOr Til that cervical dystonia, which is quite painful and debilitating, has no know cause in most cases
1aYwX TIL about the Faint young Sun paradox that in Earths early history the energy output of the Sun was only 70% of what it is today, yet earth had liquid water and a climate hospitable to the formation of life, rather than the frozen environment that it should be with the Sun's reduced energy.
OoY07 TIL of physicist Lene Hau, who in 1999 led a team at Harvard University that was able to slow down a beam of light to 38mph and in 2001 they successfully stopped a beam of light.