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TIL the story "the vibrator was invented by doctors for giving female patients orgasms to treat hysteria" was a myth.

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GAWxN TIL that in 1969, when the Football War broke out between El Salvador and Honduras, the Salvadoran Salomon Vides fled to the jungle and survived alone 32 years until he was found and reunited with his family in 2001... and learned that the war only lasted 100 hours.
6EWmJ TIL Paranormal Activity is the most profitable film ever made, as it only had a budget of $15,000 and still made over $190 million in the box office
LkXo0 TIL that cannons are also percussion instruments classified as "Pyrophones" because they are used when performing songs such as the 1812 Overture and For Those About To Rock.
XE9W8 TIL that women and children first was never the standard. And that the survival of so many women and children by the sinking of titanic was an outlier
e04d5 TIL about Euler's disk, which can spin for an absurdly long time, and seemingly defy gravity by increasing its axial precession as it decreases it's azimuthal rotation.