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TIL breastfeeding invokes in the mother the neurochemical oxytocin, otherwise known as the “love drug,” which helps to focus her attention and affection on her baby. It’s now been theorized that men who do nipple foreplay and stimulation during sex can make themselves more desirable.

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neDP7 TIL reading for 6 minutes a day reduces stress by 68%.
E1QJo TIL That in the Live Aid Queen performance, at 16:38 you can see a wave going to the back of the stadium from the people clapping. That wave is the speed of sound, caused by the people at the back hearing the music a split second before the people at the front.
E1NR0 TIL the oldest known language in the world is Tamil and even till date it is spoken by 78 million people. Next in line are Sanskrit, Greek, Chinese, Hebrew, Arabic.
epnAk TIL the then captain of the New York Yankees died in a plane crash in 1979. Thurmon Munson was named Captain in 1976, the team's first since Lou Gerhig (1939), won ROTY, gold glove 3x in a row, & led Yankees to 3 World Series from 1976 to 1978, winning in '77 & '78. He was 32 years old.
Brd5k TIL that the biblical books of Psalms and Proverbs are likely to be copied from an older Egyptian text called "Instruction of Amenemope"