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TIL girls can get so stressed it actually stops our ovulation and we skip a period.

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xxGw TIL of Gate Control Theory which explains how rubbing an injury closes nerve gates and in turn reduces pain.
j6n4E TIL If our Sun was of the size of a red blood cell, the Milky Way would be as big as the continental United States
R5oo6 TIL that among ‘Things Unexpectedly Named After People’, you have PageRank (after Larry Page), German chocolate cake, Price Club, Shrapnel, Main Street, (San Francisco), and Baker’s chocolate
BrPMW TIL during the Edo period in Japan, some firefighters set fires intentionally so they could show off their firefighting skills in public or create more business for themselves since some firefighters had construction businesses. Some firefighters were executed for this.
rRRvw It would burn a hole through you—and then some.