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TIL, for women, smelling a newborn baby feels as good as drugs do to addicts, or cheeseburgers do to those just breaking a fast

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WklQ9 TIL that a popular sort of red grapefruit was created by atomic gardening: a form of mutation breeding where plants were directly exposed to radioactive sources
jlOX TIL that “Eye of Newt” is not an actual eye, but an archaic name for mustard seed!
9rYr TIL Sir Christopher Lee not only fought Yoda and Gandalf, but he is also veteran of WWII. Oh, and he sings in a power metal band that tells the tale of Charlemagne… He’s 92.
j6kwM TIL one of the first video games ever created Tennis for Two was made with an oscilloscope (a device for visualizing waveforms) in 1958 by physicist William Higinbotham. Players used a custom one knob, one button controller to try to hit a ball over a net.
KO5OB TIL President Truman was opposed to McCarthyism, which was a means of deplatforming suspected communists without technically violating the first amendment, largely by barring them from employment. "In a free country, we punish men for the crimes they commit, but never for the opinions they have."