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TIL. That Greek statues were carved with a small penis because having a bigger package was considered grotesque and disgusting

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K0EQ TIL Jesus personally said not to stand on street corners and in synagogues (churches) and pray, because only hypocrites do that and then only to get attention. (Matthew 6:6)
8GKK TIL that prior to Harry Harlow’s controversial experiments on infant rhesus monkeys, the medical community in the US believed that physical contact between mother and infant wasn’t necessary beyond feeding. His findings were considered revolutionary at the time, but are now widely accepted.
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