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TIL that Love Stinks from The Wedding Singer was a cover of an actual 80s song

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gMwVD TIL One of the first soldiers to charge the beach on D-Day was a Canadian bagpiper, who only survived because he said German Snipers thought he was to crazy to shoot
j6LXX TIL that in the 19th century, a common treatment for syphilis was to flush the vagina or urethra with mercury.
19pP TIL that men tend to overestimate women’s sexual intent. This is an adaptive bias in order to have the least amount of missed sexual opportunities
4X9Ob TIL that the Pinky Swear stemmed from the Yakuza and implies that if you break something as holy as a pinky promise, you have to cut off your finger as punishment.
YOMd TIL that an Australian study looking at 91 patients who claimed to have had their drink spiked found that zero patients had actually been exposed to sedative drugs in their drink.