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TIL fertile women emit pheromones that cause men to drink more alcohol

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dDAK9 TIL in 1923, as a result of hyperinflation in Germany, banknotes had lost so much value that they were used as wallpaper.
awvKo TIL Flexible glass is a 'legendary' lost invention. Inventor took a flexible glass bowl to Emperor Tiberius Caesar who tried to break it. It dented instead of shattering. Inventor repaired it with a small hammer. Tiberius had the inventor beheaded because it could undermine value of gold and silver.
p8El8 TIL in 1999, the stock of Computer Literacy Inc. shot up 36% in one day, purely because the company changed its name to the more hip-sounding Fatbrain.com.
LnEp TIL about a match between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal where they played on a court which had clay surface on one side and grass on the other. At that time, Federer was undefeated on grass courts for 5 years and Nadal was undefeated on clay for 3 years.
wLRp6 TIL Omaha Beach sand is up to 4% microscopic iron fragments from D-Day