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TIL a 2023 study set out to determine if penile length is in decline like sperm counts & testosterone levels. It compiled data from 75 studies, conducted between 1942-2021, that reported on the penile length of 55,761 men & found that the average erect penis actually increased 24% over 29 years.

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16W7O TIL: “Miss Unsinkable” Violet Jessop survived the sinking of Titanic then survived the sinking of its sister ship Brittanic. The third sister and class namesake Olympic did not sink but Jessop was on board for its collision with a warship.
mQep TIL of Heinz Heydrich, the younger brother of Reinhard Heydrich (the architect of the Holocaust), who helped Jews escape Germany by forging identity documents
R7OW7 TIL a third of criminal convictions of women in the UK are for not paying for a TV Licence
aw7vM TIL the bikini was named after a Pacific island the United States bombed during nuclear testing nuclear testing, displacing the entire population and rendering the island uninhabitable. The bikini was supposed to have the same "explosive" effect on men who saw women wearing it.
D1jdD TIL two regions of the brain, reward pathways and the hippocampus, physically shrink when we're clinically depressed and gaming reverses that damage. Gameplay hyperstimulates areas of the brain associated with motivation, goals, learning and memory; making it the neurological opposite of depression.