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The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

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The Positive Feedback Loop System of Breastfeeding

Susie Stewart: Breastfeeding is a positive feedback loop system. Kathleen from San Jose, California: In the late 1400s during the Spanish Inquisition, some convents in Spain used a device to encourage nuns to work faster. The faster the nuns spun the spinning wheel, the faster the dildo worked. You can see this device in person in the Museo Lara in Rondo in Spain.

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