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TIL that self-perceived unattractive people are more inclined to care about equality issues and hold liberal values where as self-perceived attractive people are less likely to care about equality movements and hold conservative values.

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OGYL7 TIL that wasps are carnivores. They typically eat other bugs but will also eat cooked meat and chicken
6EkEX TIL after rumors that Yellow No. 5 lowered sperm count, some people increased their consumption of Mountain Dew as a form of contraception.
yQdRe TIL for over a decade, NASA used 11 deaf people with damaged vestibular systems (making them immune to motion sickness) to explore how extreme forces might affect astronauts. One test had four men spend 12 straight days in a 20-foot-wide room rotating at 10 revolutions per minute.
l7ZZB TIL that when reconstructing the Khufu Ship, a funery boat buried next to the Great Pyramid, Ahmed Youssef Moustafa spent years researching ancient egyptian boat building from reliefs in tomb walls, modern wooden boating techniques and model boats found in egyptian tombs.
EXRo TIL For the questionnaire of the 1897 census in Russia, in the field “Occupation”, tsar Nicholas II wrote in:“Owner of Russia”