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TIL that there is a chemical signal in female tears that reduces testosterone and sexual urges in men.

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6E71X TIL the Code of Hammurabi decreed that bartenders who watered down beer would be executed.
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a8vLA TIL Journalist Micheal Hastings wrote a career ending report on Stanley McChrystal causing him to be fired in the Army
yQ7Vw TIL that in the Middles Ages, psychiatric disorder existed among the upper class causing people to fear that they were made of glass "and therefore likely to shatter into pieces". One famous sufferer was King Charles VI of France, who wore reinforced clothing to protect himself from "shattering"
ky04 TIL Stetson Kennedy infiltrated the KKK in the 1940s, exposing its secrets to authorities and the outside world. He coined the term “Frown Power” when he started a campaign with that name, which simply encouraged people to pointedly frown when they heard bigoted speech.