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TIL Masturbation can reduce Prostate Cancer in Men

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YDKB TIL that Washington State has a mutual combat law that permits legal voluntary street fighting (even for self-made superheros)
xrV5 TIL serial killer Robert Hansen abducted his victims and flew them to his isolated cabin in the Alaskan mountains. He then released them and hunted them with a knife and a Ruger Mini-14.
OG67X TIL thousands of Enron emails are available online after they were made publicly available when Enron was being investigated by energy regulators
lQYB TIL that Alzheimer’s disease is considered by some scientists to be Type 3 diabetes because it results from resistance to insulin in the brain.
4PEN TIL that the Higgs boson, commonly refered to as the “God Particle”, was originally intended to be name the “goddamn particle”, but Leon Lederman’s publisher asked that it be changed. Higgs, an atheist, was unhappy with the nickname because he thought the term “might offend people who are religious”