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TIL that the stickers on fruit, and even the glue holding the stickers to the fruit, are edible/FDA friendly

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P4nV TIL Researchers at Yale did a study on teaching monkeys to use money to buy things like grapes, jello and other things. It turns out once the monkeys learned they could buy things with the money they started paying females monkeys for sex, who in turn immediately bought some sweets with it.
7WyL TIL the Atkinson Engine cycles through all four strokes in one revolution of the crankshaft.
yQA48 TIL having a good cry really is good for you. The tears you shed when you cry contain stress hormones, and crying itself may actually stimulate the production of endorphins—the body's natural painkiller—as well as feel-good hormones such as oxytocin.
rJl4 TIL that selling stolen artifacts is the 3rd most profitable wing of the black market, after drugs and weapons.
j6JyM TIL: A sex toy maker agreed to pay customers up to C$10,000 each for selling a “smart vibrator,” which tracked owners’ use without their knowledge. Two hackers had demonstrated the company was collecting information about users, including device temperature and vibration intensity.