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TIL that human semen has health beneficial properties including vitamins, increasing fertility in women and contains mood-elevating hormones.

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PY97G TIL in 2008 due to the recession Japanese workers could go to a shop called 'The Venting Place' in Tokyo and buy plates to smash against a wall to release anger. "You can get three small dishes for 500 yen, a medium sized plate for 500 yen, a big platter for 1000 yen"
9wyQQ TIL that Amazon has a serious problem with counterfeit products, and it's all because of something called "commingled inventory."
NXyBM TIL There was a concentration camp on British soil in Alderney. It is known as "The Island of Silence" as not much is known about the exact atrocities that took place.
pYR1p TIL that Maya cities had high levels of mercury, which may have led to their abandonment.
b6y7j TIL Alfred Nobel (creator of dynamite) is thought to have created the prize after an unflattering obituary naming him the “Merchant of Death.”