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TIL that lower testosterone has been scientifically proven to be associated with leftist beliefs

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PYnrg TIL that the first thing that was ever bought and sold over the internet was weed. In 1971 or 1972, Stanford students using Arpanet accounts at Stanford's AI Laboratory engaged in a commercial transaction with their counterparts at MIT, and thus the first act of e-commerce was a pot deal.
rRGny TIL that Chicago's Field Museum has 10 colonies of flesh-eating beetles, who live and work at the museum cleaning animal bones for display.
N7ROP TIL that 50 yrs ago today, the US conducted its largest underground nuclear test. A W71 warhead was detonated in a 7-ft-wide, 5,873-ft-deep shaft beneath Amchitka Island, Alaska. The yield was about 5 Megatons. The explosion raised the ground 25 ft, later collapsing into a 1-mile-wide, 60-ft crater.
OoXa TIL A man drove his 1990 Honda Accord for one million miles and was thrown a parade by Honda itself.
v1l4 TIL At Semco, a successful Brazilian company, the employees vote their superiors and decide about their wages and working times. There is almost no hierarchy, no business plans, no HR management. It’s called the seven day weekend.