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TIL One of most powerful releases of oxytocin is stimulation of the nipples, also kissing!

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dbp8 TIL The first woman to have flown into space(1963), Valentina Tereshkova, also volunteered in 2013 to go on a one-way trip to Mars.
N7MpM TIL that the diamond engagement ring fever was invented by an ad campaign in the 1930s and that before that few Americans proposed with the precious stone, and the price of diamond was falling
DQxJj TIL Samwise Gamgee from LOTR was adopted by the OG Gomez Adams after Patty Duke couldn't determine who his bio-dad actually was.
EOx TIL: Aberdeen Washington. Birthplace of Kurt Cobain. Has an unoffical motto of “Come as you are.” In homage to the Nirvana song.
xVjbb TIL Charondas - a Greek lawgiver - once issued a law saying that anyone who brought weapons into the Assembly must be put to death. One day, he arrived to the Assembly after hunting with a knife still attached to his belt. He committed suicide in order to uphold his own law.