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TIL that women can orgasm from exercising their core

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rVAW TIL that when Coca-Cola wanted to raise the price of the drink in the 1950s, they avoided moving to a price that required the use of more than a single coin (5¢), so they created vending machines where one in every nine bottles was empty so some people would have to pay 10¢ to get a drink
l7BbV TIL controversial Minister Louis Farrakhan who has made many negative statements about Jewish People in the past is a symphony-level classic violin musician and in 1993 he performed a Mendessohn composition he said was an effort to heal a rift between him and the Jewish community.
16bZP TIL that Chex (originally Shredded Ralston) was created by pseudoscience writer Webster Edgerly as a food to give mind control powers to white people.
grxYD TIL about the Bascom affair, in which the Apache took 6 American settlers hostage and eventually killed them. The incident lead to a decades long struggle known as the Apache Wars.
P1eRw TIL about Callon of Epidaurus, who underwent the first recorded sex reassignment surgery in the 2nd century BC and then socially transitioned from a priestess to a man.