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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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LkyX0 TIL that the annual 72,500 roubles rent that USA payed for the ambassadors house in Moscow was equal to 3 dollars in 2001 post-soviet inflation value. Since the US-Soviet contract didn't provide for currency fluctuations, USA argued that the rent should stay fixed.
e0Ep6 TIL Scotland has a national elephant polo team.
VaRB TIL that beer cans in Japan have braille on them so blind people don’t confuse alcoholic drinks with soft drinks
mxkgx TIL in 1961 Judy Garland became the first woman to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year for her LIVE recording, "Judy at Carnegie Hall", and in 1962, at the age of 39, she became the first woman (and youngest person ever) to receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award for Lifetime Achievement in film.
0dwl5 TIL of John Cummings, who after seeing a circus knife-swallower, actually swallowed 4 knives to brag to his shipmates - he passed 3 with no ill-health.