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TIL scientists found that men wearing white t-shirts with a large black letter “T” printed on the front were 12% more attractive to women. The t-shirt creates the illusion of broadened shoulders and a slim waist, a male body shape women typically find attractive.

XlVQ TIL Valentines Day started life as a fertility festival where two men wearing animal skin would run around slapping passers by with lengths of goat skin.
9LJX TIL that a Harvard School of Public Health study found that people who smoke weed tend to have lower levels of insulin, better cholesterol, and smaller waist circumferences than people who don’t smoke weed even after adjusting for things like age, race, alcohol or tobacco use, and activity levels.
0d70L TIL that there is a fungus that turns ants into 'zombies'! Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, also known as the 'zombie fungus', infects ants and controls their behavior, causing them to climb to high locations and bite onto a leaf before producing spores that can spread the fungus.
pYP64 TIL of Patrice Lumumba- arguably the Godfather of Africa's reclaiming of independence. He led Congo to independence in 1960 (from a colony of Belgium). He was a charismatic leader who embodied the struggle for African unity, and the complete eradication of European colonialist power in Africa.
47Q6 TIL that in 1993 a man named William Brennan walked out of the Stardust Casino in Las Vegas with $500K in cash and chips and vanished, along with his cat. He has never been heard from since, making it one of the most successful casino robberies in history.