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TIL that North Korea's main export is fake hair

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Z8jda TIL Ben & Jerry's Has A Flavor Graveyard For Their Dearly De-Pinted Flavors
rR6Dy TIL about Diederik Stapel, a Dutch Social Psychologist who falsified data in over 30 publications. "Discoveries" he made using falsified data included the finding that meat-eaters are more selfish than vegetarians.
ep0r5 TIL about the Shepard Tone. An audio illusion that creates the feeling of consistent, never-ending rising/falling. The illusion is achieved by playing overlapping notes that are one octave apart. In this way, the sensation of rising or descending notes never ends.
gMPYb TIL If anyone in a bonobo group, male or female, is feeling stressed, anxious, or irritated, someone will run over and give them a ‘bonobo handshake’ also known as social sexual contact.
4XdDJ TIL about James Barry (born Margaret Bulkley), an esteemed military surgeon who reformed medical standards across the British Empire. He performed one of the 1st C-sections where both mother & child survived. After Barry's death in 1865, it was discovered his assigned sex at birth was female.