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TIL 5% of patients who take the anti-depressant clomipramine experience orgasms every time they yawn

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1aQpr TIL Charles Manson studied 150 hours of Scientology before deciding the religion was "too crazy" for him.
gpj7 TIL the collective nouns we use for animals (gaggle of geese, herd of deer etc.) mostly come from the Book of St Alban’s published in 1486. It also included terms for professions such as a melody of harpists, a sentence of judges and a superfluity of nuns.
xwW1 TIL that Jeff Bezos’ parents put several hundred thousand dollars into Amazon.com to get it started.
0dmlA TIL a third of the metal used to make the Tokyo tower came from damaged American tanks from the Korean war (1950-1953).
vPBQB TIL in 1985 the great-grandson of Oscar F. Mayer gave away his $1.4 million inheritance (adjusted for inflation) at age 26 to become an activist and academic expert, specializing in inequality, tax policy and hereditary wealth