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TIL Bacon affects the brain the same way as cocaine and heroin, overloading pleasure centers in the brain and requiring increasing amounts to be satisfied.

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NayE TIL: The Antiques Roadshow appraised a grotesque jug to be worth $50,000, comparing it to a Picasso. Unknown to the appraiser, it was actually made by some random high school kid over 40 years ago. After finding out, he changed his appraisal to $5k, saying it was “not bad for a high schooler”
5jWR TIL that the British Museum is older than the United States
NXPM1 TIL: The "pudding" that is supposed to be included in a "full English breakfast" isn't a desert, it's a "blood sausage."
OGy6g TIL the Myers-Briggs personality test was made by two women without any formal education in the field of Psychology, most of the research supporting its validity come from the Myers-Briggs foundation, and it is widely considered to be just pseudo-science in accademic circles.
9Y4xX TIL There was a pornographic video game for the Atari 2600 called Beat 'Em & Eat 'Em. Players control two nude women; the goal is to catch semen in their mouths, which is falling from a masturbating man on a rooftop, without missing.