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TIL Fetuses masturbate [NSFW]

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VMlGk TIL basketball Hall of Famer Hakeem Olajuwon wore off-brand shoes. To combat the robberies and killings for shoes that was common at the time, he even released his own signature shoe with Spalding, for $34.95.
pAjQ TIL that renowned theoretical physicist David Bohm was not allowed to defend, or even write his own doctoral thesis because he didn’t have the security clearence
BgKje TIL the photons harnessed for solar energy are the same ones responsible for skin cancer.
Xpjj TIL that Philip K. Dick never saw the completed version of “Blade Runner” and Ridley Scott never finished reading “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”
GYvr1 TIL that while writing the popular 1990s song Friday I'm in Love, The Cure frontman Robert Smith became convinced that he stole the tune from somewhere, and was so paranoid that he called every person he knew and played the song for them, asking if they recognized it. It was, indeed, unique.