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TIL that mint decreases testosterone level, and with it, the sexual drive.

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b6o4N TIL that Ben Franklin's invention of the lightning rod was blamed by church leaders for the 1755 Cape Ann earthquake off the coast of Colonial Massachusetts — as his "heretical rods" interfered with the "artillery of Heaven" & deprived God of using lightning as "tokens of His displeasure."
DQ4wp TIL in Slovakia on Easter, men whip women and throw water on them so that they’ll stay beautiful and fresh for the next year. In exchange, the women serve drinks as thanks.
xbgb TIL that the rapper T.I. once talked a 24yr old jumper down from the ledge of an Atlanta skyscraper. They chatted for 5mins and were reunited on a radio show months after.
GYnr5 TIL Russia has a monument dedicated to lab rats
JGrj TIL there was a non-Japanese, non-spouse American who voluntarily went to a Japanese American Internment Camp in WWII.