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TIL a 2023 study found sniffing women’s tears reduced male aggression by 44%

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5Vg58 TIL in WW2 the British emplyed Operation Window which used a highly effective tactic to jam German radar - dropping plane loads of small pieces of aluminum and zinc foil
rRPMy TIL about the Disney movie "John Carter" (2012), one of the most expensive films ever made, with a net budget of $263 million, and simultaneously one of the, if not the worst box office bomb ever, even adjusted for inflation. The movie resulted in a $200 million loss for Walt Disney Pictures.
vbK TIL Pat Summit, former University of Tennessee Women’s Basketball Coach, had a student-athlete graduation rate of 100%. She coached for 38 years.
NXyJN TIL Susan Weaver, AKA Sigourney Weaver, began using the name "Sigourney" when she was 14 years old, taking it from a minor character in The Great Gatsby.
epQxg TIL John Adams's often-quoted estimate that a third were patriots, a third were loyalists, and a third were neutral was not about the War for Independence but about Americans' attitude toward the French Revolution.