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TIL Male semen has significant health benefits for women including working as a natural antidepressant, reduction of breast cancer, etc.

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d8rb8 TIL about Doug Hegdahl, a POW during the Vietnam War, who memorized the names, dates of capture, method of capture and personal details of 256 fellow POWs to the tune of "Old MacDonald Had A Farm." He can still recite it to this day.
v8vL TIL Internet trolls are likely to be sadists, narcissists, or psychopaths, studies show. One of the studies found that the link between sadism and Internet trolling is so strong that trolls could be described as “prototypical everyday sadists.”
M4bK TIL Ren Xiaofeng, a manager of The Agricultural Bank of China, stole $26,000 from the bank with the intention of buying lottery tickets, winning, and repaying the initial theft. Against the odds, it worked so he tried again with $6.7 million. He lost all but $95,000 and was sentenced to death.
j6M8p TIL that archaeologists think that they’ve found the remains of Pliny the Elder, the author of the largest surviving Roman text, the encyclopedia called Naturalis Historia, who died trying to rescue people at Pompeii
OGGB1 TIL About an ACE German pilot who spared and escorted a badly crippled American B-17 bomber to safety. Later both pilots found each other after WWII and became friends until they passed.