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When love is in the air for certain moth species, the female secretes a pheromone to signal that she’s ready to make little moths. An interested male will approach and “sing” her a courtship song composed of a series of ultrasonic pulses.

Matt Soniak


Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller had a turbulent marriage.

For famous writers like F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda, turbulent real-life relationships rivaled the dramas that played out on the page.

Shannon McKenna Schmidt, Joni Rendon


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Alfred Kinsey, biologist, pioneering sex researcher and founder of the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University, once wrote that "a marked quiescence of the total body is the most widely recognized outcome of orgasm," more noticeably among males

Matt Soniak