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TIL there exists a fungus, the smell of which can trigger spontaneous orgasms in human females.

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W7ad TIL in 1917 Germans built a 25-foot-tall armor-plated fake tree with a soldier sitting in it to spy on Allied forces. the Germans waited until nightfall and cut down one of the real trees to replace it with the fake one With artillery firing the whole time so the Brits wouldn’t hear the axes.
BrmRk TIL Lamborghini made tractors before super cars
gra6y TIL that during the Cold War, Berlin had two metro lines which began and ended in the western half of the city, but cut through eastern territory. East Berlin agreed that for a fee, trains could pass through so long as they never stopped at any of the stations there.
lo4K1 TIL that the bitter/sour taste in Hershey’s chocolate is from a chemical called butyric acid. The same chemical is responsible for giving vomit its rancid taste.
4XYE6 TIL there are no known records from the American Treasury Department to indicate why Andrew Jackson was chosen to replace Grover Cleveland on the $20 bill in 1928. Jackson was notoriously opposed to paper money.