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TIL High-testosterone men have weaker immune systems

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KOKya TIL that Tara, a tabby cat, won the 2015 SPCA Los Angeles’s annual national 'Hero Dog Award' for tackling a dog attacking a child.
Kmka TIL that the color now known as “School bus yellow” was especially formulated for use on school buses in North America because this yellow is noticed quicker in peripheral vision than any other color.
JY8Jm TIL that the Oneida silverware company was started by a religious millennial group (1850) who practiced free love and would have menopausal women train the young males how to not ejaculate during sex as a method of abstinence.
awAJL TIL in 1969, upon request from Richard Nixon, NASA made 250 display plaques for the 50 US states, 135 countries, and the UN. Flags from all the countries and states were flown on board Apollo 11 to the moon and back, and were gifted to each respective state along with fragments of the lunar surface.
BpgW TIL that the reason rubbing alcohol burns when applied to cuts is because exposed VR1 nerve cells in the cut, which normally detect burning hot temperatures, have their pain threshold lowered by alcohol–so much that your own body temperature causes the burning sensation.