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TIL The Maserati Quattroporte’s exhaust frequency is 333Hz—A frequency purported to stimulate sexual arousal in women

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X85D TIL Fifteen years ago, an amateur astronomer discovered an asteroid that turned out to be part of an Apollo rocket that disappeared 30 years earlier.
kJGxW TIL that Irish boxer Steve Collins used a variety of mind games to unnerve and defeat opponent Chris Eubank. These included allegedly having himself hypnotised before the fight and listening to headphones during Eubank’s entrance.
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