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TIL According to a study, abstaining from ejaculation has little effect on testosterone levels in men for 6 days, but testosterone levels reach approximately 146 percent on the seventh day.

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6Eg9w TIL Nat sec advisor Brzezinski was woken at 3am by a call telling him Russia launched 250 ICBMs at the U. S. Minutes later, he received another call: The early-warning system actually showed 2,000 inbound missiles. As he began to phone the president, he received a third call: It was a false alarm.
8aVkb TIL alchemists considered Mercury as a magical substance that a Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang took it as the elixir of immorality which resulted in him dying at the age of 49 and even he was buried in an underground mausoleum full of mercury thinking it's going to help him rule in the afterlife
wLoVY TIL Oscar the Grouch was originally orange, and was meant to be magenta
5YKRP TIL Alberta Canada is the largest inhabited land mass that has no rat population. Every territory surrounding it has rats, but high rat control efforts have kept them out.
kOnJ5 TIL The full form of MBBS is Medicinae Baccalaureus Baccalaureus Chirurgiae