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TIL: “Kenjataimu” is the Japanese word for the post-orgasm period in which he can think clearly because his mind is free of sexual desire.

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e0Gwg TIL of the 1980 book "Michelle Remembers", which sold millions of copies and spurred the Satanic panic of that era. Oprah even had the two authors on her show and presented their accounts of satanic abuse as pure fact. The book was later discredited.
9jpB TIL When George Foreman was asked why he named all 5 of his sons “George” he replied “Joe Frazier, Muhammad Ali, Ken Norton, Evander Holyfield…you let them hit you on the head and see how many names you can think of”
5Vov9 TIL the first study (2023) to focus on viewers’ perceptions & preferences regarding the male ejaculation found that most viewers either: did not care about the male ejaculation or its placement (27%) or preferred for it to be in the female partner’s vagina (38%).
Z8OY4 TIL Mae Jemison, the astronaut (Endeavour), is also a dancer, chemical engineer, medical doctor, Cornell professor, and leader of the 100 Year Starship - with the goal to reach another solar system within 100 years
R7R9w Let’s say you’re doing 100 mph in a car and suddenly a downed tree, stopped the car, or person appears in the road up ahead and you need to slam on the brakes. How much more dangerous is that situation than when you’re doing 70 mph? Your intuition might tell you that 100 mph is only 30% more than 70 mph. But as this video shows, the important factor in stopping a car (or what happens to the car when it collides with something else) does not speed but energy, which increases at the square of speed. In other words, going from 70 mph to 100 mph more than doubles your energy…and going from 55 to 100 more than triples it.