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TIL that not a single human pheromone has been identified

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yQa4w TIL of Major Arcana, the 22 Cards that represents the Life Lessons, Karmic Influences and big Archetypal themes that are influencing your life and your soul's journey to enlightenment.
b6Xm0 TIL that the pulp hero Zorro is not Central/South American as many assume, but actually a white European Spaniard. The 1998 film "The Mask of Zorro" saw the original Zorro, played by Anthony Hopkins, pass the torch to a new Mexican successor. They cast Antonio Banderas, a white European Spaniard.
jLka TIL Charles Darwin & Joseph Hooker started the world’s first terraforming project on Ascension Island in 1850. The project has turned an arid volcanic wasteland into a self sustaining and self reproducing ecosystem made completely of foreign plants from all over the world.
Z8m7a TIL a California Congressman once shot and killed a waiter, for being refused breakfast because it was too late in the morning. He was acquitted of manslaughter by a sympathetic jury.
QNr9X TIL about the oddly-named "Doomsday Rule" which can (with practice) be used to calculate the weekday of a target date based on the fact that certain days (4/4, 5/9, 6/6...) in any given year all fall on the same day of the week.