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TIL The thirteenth-century friar, Albert's Magnus, publicized eating roasted wolf penis as the ultimate cure for Erectile Dysfunction.

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gMkp8 TIL that the Life expectancy number we know for the middelages includes the infant mortality, so 13th-century English nobles had 30 year life expectancy at birth, but when they reached the age of 21, they would normaly have a expectancy of 64.
xgpD TIL that the idiom “You kids get off my lawn” was ascribed to elderly first-generation homeowners who prided their lawns as a symbol of new-found affluence post WWII
0w6L5 TIL there were lions in the wild of North Africa until the 1960s.
BXGr TIL “Kansas” is a mispronunciation of French spelling, and should be pronounced like the last 2 syllables of “Arkansas.”
M7rBW TIL adolescents who experienced cyberbullying were more than four times as likely to report suicidal thoughts and attempts