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TIL that multiple scientific studies have concluded that having a dog really does make you more attractive to others. Cats not so much.

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b91Qj TIL All the Pandas in the world belong to China (even unborn ones)
5Gn8 TIL A language teacher volunteered to teach troubled black high school students French in Watts, California after the race riots. The principal warned him he would “be sorry” but within a few weeks students were speaking to each other in French
GY1P4 TIL Some male beetles’ sexual organs have barbs and spikes like medieval torture devices. The wounds given to the female during sex are an “unfortunate side effect” and does not benefit the reproductive process.
v1KG8 TIL that Scientists Genetically Engineered Flies to Ejaculate Under Red Light. Their experiments confirm that sex is pleasurable, even for animals we think of as simple.
kOwo4 TIL In 1971, the crew of Apollo 15 carried about 400 unauthorized postal covers to the Moon in order to be sold. Because the astronauts were paid $7000 each even though they returned the money, they were accused of profiting from their mission and never allowed to fly in space again.