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TIL that not a single human pheromone has been identified

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KOGrE TIL of the infamous "Chicken Incident", when a chicken made its way on the stage of an Alice Cooper gig. Cooper, thinking a chicken would fly, picked it up and proceeded to throw it onto the crowd. It landed on the first few rows occupied by wheelchair users, who then teared the chicken to pieces.
npa9 TIL that in oil-rich Azerbaijan people bathe in crude oil believing it improves their health
oB8Mo TIL in 2007 a Chinese company sold a sofa model with an inappropriate label after their translation software translated the Chinese characters for "dark brown" as "n***er brown".
9YnwB TIL "Inuit" is plural, "Inuuk" is dual, "Inuk" is singular.
BrxBD TIL the first ever photocopier, the Xerox 914, caught fire so frequently that a “scorch eliminator”, asmall fire extinguisher, was provided with the copier.