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TIL left-handed men's dominant armpit smells more masculine & intense — but only to fertile women not on the pill

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b61YN TIL about the man who visited every country in the world – without boarding a plane and it took him 10 years to do
awvoJ TIL the President's desk in the Oval Office of the White House was a gift from Queen Victoria to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880, & was carved from the HMS Resolute, a 19th century British Royal Navy ship that an American whaler recovered from the Arctic
awpyZ TIL The Code of Hammurabi (1754 BC) has 282 laws enscribed on stone. It includes the concept of "eye for an eye" and "tooth for a tooth" - more than 500 years before the Torah.
rNMaw TIL the nose of Japan’s bullet train was redesigned after a kingfisher’s beak to stop tunnel sonic booms
rJAW TIL The United States still executes prisoners by firing squad. The last prisoner executed by firing squad was in 2010 in Utah.