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TIL Aristotle taught that women need to come to orgasm in order to produce a child

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RjvQ Jet/planes are tested by blasting 800 gallons of water per minute, ice balls, and dead chickens at running engines to assure that they hold their form.
aw0P9 TIL flow is the mental state in which a person is completely absorbed in an activity, resulting in a loss of their sense of space and time.
R7AWQ TIL David Bowie hated Gary Numan so much to begin with that he had Numan thrown off the billing of a show they were both booked to appear in
0d6AN TIL about Team 0%, “a group dedicated to making sure that every single level in both Super Mario 1 & 2 have at least one clear on it.” As of right now they are 99.9% done with SM1, with only one more level to clear to “beat” the whole game
d987 TIL that a Dutch warship was disguised as a tropical island during WWII to escape detection by the Japanese. It was the only ship of its class to survive.