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TIL the mushroom (Phallus indusiatus) can make a woman orgasm spontaneously by smelling it

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Z8Q0B TIL That women also competed as gladiators in ancient Rome and there is a marble relief dating to around the 2nd century A.D. depicting a bout between two women dubbed “Amazon” and “Achillia,” whom the inscription says fought to an honorable draw.
4bnR TIL that ramen comes from Japan but is made from Chinese ingredients, causing the Chinese people to think it is a Japanese dish and Japanese people to think it is a Chinese dish.
b9dJE TIL of the world's richest woman, Françoise Bettencourt Meyers. She owns a 33% stake in L'Oreal which was founded by her grandfather, Eugène Schueller, a known fascist and Nazi sympathizer. Françoise married and has raised her children Jewish.
vvBx TIL of a man who joined the Marines as a private, got promoted to Sergeant and then became an officer as a Lieutenant, then got discharged, enlisted as a Private again, then became an officer again, and ended up being a Lieutenant General
4jX6 TIL despite being rejected as the name of a new British research vessel, Boaty McBoatface will be the name of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle on the RSS Sir David Attenborough