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todayilearned
Jan 14, 2020
TIL that unlike previously posted here on TIL, Victorian-Era doctors didn't invent vibrators to give hysterical women Orgasms - it was a failure of reporting and lack of Peer Review
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todayilearned
Dec 13, 2019
TIL The FBI investigated the song “Louie Louie” because people thought the lyrics were dirty. After three months, the FBI abandoned the investigation because it couldn’t make out the words.
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Nov 21, 2019
TIL Apollo 11 landed on the moon just 66 years after the Wright Brother's first flight.
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