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TIL Sex alleviates headaches so effectively that some people have started to sex as a treatment for headaches

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d5p7 TIL that the Incans, despite having a large empire, had no currency and no merchant class; citizens paid the government with labor and received necessities in return
Z8DN4 TIL the caduceus, the traditional symbol of Hermes which features two snakes winding around an often winged staff is often mistakenly used as a symbol of medicine. The Rod of Asclepius, featuring one snake around a rod is the correct symbol.
OGVM6 TIL in a 2011 Family Guy episode there is a reference to an incumbent Republican president who upon failing to get re-elected starts an insurrection/civil war
7rxGP TIL Hundred Islands National Park, Phillipines, has 124 islands at low tide but only three of them have been developed for tourism: Governor Island, Quezon Island, and Children's Island. The peculiar "mushroom-like" shapes of some of the islands were caused by the eroding action of ocean waves
X0a4D TIL that Helen Sharman, the first British person in space, worked for the confectionery company Mars before being selected to travel to the Mir space station, leading to the press dubbing her "the girl from Mars".