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TIL breast ironing is a thing they do - in Cameroon. Mothers who do it believe it decreases the likelihood of their daughters being raped.

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6lb7 TIL the urge for people (especially mothers) to “gobble up” a baby is caused by the scent of the baby which causes the brain to deliver rewarding feelings similar to eating .
EgKYX TIL that Alfred Gilman and Louis Goodman wrote 'Goodman & Gilman', the standard pharmacology textbook. AG's son Alfred Goodman Gilman, named for Gilman and his friend LG, was nicknamed "the only person to be named after a textbook". AGG later became editor of 'Goodman & Gilman' and won a Nobel.
dAl9 TIL Jean-Claude Van Damme’s first screen credit is listed as “Gay Karate Man”.
D7lv TIL of a living 6000-year-old hollow tree in South Africa, which contains a wine cellar and bar that can hold up to 60 people
DQE9V TIL Kandahar, Afghanistan may have derived its name from Alexander the Great, who founded the city around 330 BC.