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TIL regular ejaculation decreases your chance of having prostate cancer by up to 36%!

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a894o TIL I learned about the HMS Thesis submarine disaster. It had an escape chamber that saved 4 lives but the fifth person panicked when using it, dooming all 98 others aboard.
j6g6Q TIL about the 1947 Texas City Disaster: A ship carrying ammonium nitrate, among other cargo, exploded. The resulting detonation was felt in Louisiana, recorded by a seismograph in Denver, CO, and caused a 15-foot tidal wave. The blast and devastation has been likened to a small-scale Hiroshima.
R5vnQ TIL the casting coach and fake taxi porn was once used to bring young women to porn using those same tricks which I thought was fake. Now it is just dark. I never thought it was real.
nWKYb TIL that the guy who wrote the "First They Came For The ..." poem was a self-professed antisemite who voted for the Nazis in 1924, 1928, and 1933.
Zp4Av TIL: The 'Super Trouper' in the ABBA song is a powerful theatrical follow spotlight. The lyric is about being the star of the show, the one that the brightest spotlight follows.