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TIL that government in Japan runs dating ads in which they tell the women what kind of stocking to wear and even at what angle to tilt your head when looking at a man to attract him

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9krm TIL in a variation of the 1963 Milgram Experiment, with a live puppy and real shocks, only half of the male participants went up to the full shock level, but all of the females did.
R0A6 TIL there is a species of deer in Germany who won’t cross the border where the Iron Curtain once stood, even though that border has been gone physically for 20 years.
LQb0 TIL that Aztecs were making the sharpest blades known to science 2,500 years ago out of obsidian, and, as of relatively recently, the technology is starting to catch on again.
AjQ4 TIL Raptors have been shown to start wildfires to drive their prey out into the open.
ea6n TIL the scientific name for the western lowland gorilla is “gorilla gorilla gorilla”