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TIL scientists are studying whale bowel movements to figure out how much stress whales are experiencing

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R76Q4 TIL there's a sumerian erotic poem called the "The Courtship of Inanna and Dumuzi," that talks about "plowing the vulva", "drinking your fresh milk" and "filling my holy churn with honey cheese".
BkEr TIL the Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic, and possibly Indian alphabets are all derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs via the Phoenician alphabet.
9YKR7 TIL, Klay Thompson of the Golden State Warriors set an NBA record of 14 three-pointers while only dribbling the ball FIVE...TIMES...
6QNY TIL a man blew his head off in the middle of the Harvard campus, as an “as an experiment in nihilism”, as described in his 1900-pg manifesto.
awp7y TIL 1 sperm has 37.5MB of DNA information in it. That means a normal ejaculation represents a data transfer of 1587GB in about 3 seconds