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

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VBn7m TIL that the male redback spider will assist his partner during sexual cannibalism by somersaulting toward her mouthparts. Because this allows him to mate only once, some find a juvenile female -- too young to eat him -- and break her exoskeleton to deliver his sperm for her to use when mature.
o9ar TIL in Japanese, the Buddhist term for “refraining from saying bad words” is ‘Fuck’.
KOroG TIL that every member of The Beatles cited "Happiness Is A Warm Gun" as their favorite song off of The White Album
KO0mw TIL Cassius Marcellus Clay was a farmer, politician and abolitionist from Kentucky. After being shot in an assassination attempt, Clay killed his would-be assassin with a Bowie knife. Clay would later successfully fight off six attackers at once following a speech for the abolition of slavery.
LQOrr TIL that during Oliver Cromwell’s military campaign in Ireland, his forces allegedly beat an Irish commander to death with his own wooden leg, because they thought he had concealed gold in it.