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TIL there is a female urinal called The Pollee.

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697pY TIL that, Dr. Wilhelm Reich claimed orgasms prevented mental illness and he fought droughts and UFOs with giant energy guns. In the 1950s, the government called him a fraud, burned his books, and busted up his lab in Rangeley.
E1p1o TIL that a man with a low IQ of 48 was banned from having sex, the High Court Justice Nicholas Mostyn said that Alan did not have the mental capacity to understand the health risks and should not have sex with anyone.
nenaW TIL: An estimated 70 percent of antibiotics are sold in the United States for use in meat production.
5YRmp TIL that Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens was part of the Navy codebreaking team that, in 1943, fatally targeted the flight of Japanese Admiral Yamamoto, the architect of the Pearl Harbor attack. In 1932, Stevens witnessed Babe Ruth's called-shot home run in the Yankees-Cubs World Series.
1a5yX TIL of Charles Lightoller, the most senior officer to survive the Titanic, who forced men to leave the lifeboats at gunpoint so only women and children could board. He was then pinned underwater for some time, until a blast of hot air from the ventilator blew him to the surface.