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TIL of "Skin Hunger" , where not receiving adequate human touch can have emotional and physical consequences.

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ADrOa TIL Herma are ancient greek statues featuring only a head, typically Hermes, and a phallus. In 415 BC all of the Athenian Herma were vandalized by having the penises removed.
rr01 TIL that astrophysicist Carl Sagan and his wife would smuggle books about the history of the Russian Revolution into the USSR so that their colleagues could read them, since recorded history lessons in Russia were actively manipulated by Joseph Stalin at the time.
Brm8d TIL that Lone Star ticks can give you meat allergy.
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