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TIL The body associates quality non-alcoholic beer with the flavour and smell with full-strength beer. This leads it to produce dopamine, giving you the same feelings of reward as full-strength beer

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nWxgG TIL that some of the stones used in the creation of Stonehenge were bluestones from the Preseli Hills in western Wales and may have been chosen for their acoustic properties.
p8loQ TIL DNA evidence shows that groups in the Amazon are more closely related to indigenous Australians than Native Americans
awgML TIL Astronaut Gus Grissom was accused of prematurely blowing the hatch on the Liberty 7 space capsule, causing it to sink. He maintained the hatch blew on its own without his intervention. He later died in the Apollo 1 capsule fire because of a complicated hatch that would not blow quickly enough.
AmNl TIL that Aubrey Plaza plays on a successful women’s basketball team called The Pistol Shrimps
kJlLd TIL of the given name "Increase." It is the English language literal translation of the name Joseph. Since the 19th century, the name has decreased in popularity and is now rare, if not extinct.