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TIL Cuddling with your partner significantly improves the healing process of bruises and wounds due to the release of Oxytocin.

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b69bN TIL that the 1970s disco mega-hit "More, More, More" was recorded in Jamaica by American porn star Andrea True. She was there to film some commercials, but a diplomatic dispute with the USA forced her to choose between spending her pay there or forfeiting it. She decided to pay for a demo record.
vggB TIL in 1899 the southern States had four days of arctic cold, enough to freeze the entire length of the Mississippi River
awZpy TIL There's a Spider man comic where his girlfriend, MJ, dies after exposure to Spider man's radioactive semen
OGb6e TIL that in 1927, Lindbergh flew 3,600 miles solo across the Atlantic in the Spirit of St. Louis with no radio, no lights, no parachute, not even a windshield. Just a periscope, a map, a wicker chair, and 33.5 sleepless hours in a cockpit that looked more like a steam engine than a plane.
nW6KY Today I learned that only seven seconds elapsed between the opening of his cell and the opening of the trapdoor of the gallows from which James Inglis was hanged, making this the fastest hanging in the history of the United Kingdom.