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TIL Masturbation can reduce Prostate Cancer in Men

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rREO4 TIL a Japanese bomber pilot dropped four bombs on a small Oregon coastal town. The damp atmosphere meant the thermite bombs failed to explode. Years later the citizens of that town invited the pilot to their town. He accepted, and gave them a samurai sword as apology. It's still on display.
R78g6 TIL - The people of Boston disliked Andrew Jackson so much that someone snuck into a shipyard and sawed the head off of a Jackson figurehead on the U.S.S Constitution and sent it to the secretary of the Navy.
m1kVE TIL that American chemist Gilbert Lewis was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry every year from 1922 until 1946 but never won it. His death in 1946 may have been a suicide.
mxAWy TIL a study of newly-wed couples found that women are happier with ugly men, including improved committment and better sexual performance.
b9jjQ TIL That according to old danish law, any dane is entitled to beat any swede with a stick, if they try to cross öresund when its frozen. And yes, specifically with a stick.