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TIL the scent of women’s tears temporarily reduces sexual arousal and testosterone production in men

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d86W9 TIL that in 2004, researchers were exploring using sugar, specifically glucose, as fuel for an ecologically friendly automobile.
9lNp TIL that the Star Wars character Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader meets six of the nine diagnostic criteria for borderline personality disorder (BPD), one more than necessary for a diagnosis.
D1Wbv TIL that iconic scare from 2002's The Ring wasn't Amber Tamblyn in makeup, playing dead. It was actually a body double created by the now retired effects legend Rick Baker who photographed Tamblyn from multiple angles to make the figure look as convincing as possible.
NXgg8 TIL of the Eleusinian Mysteries- secret rituals of ancient Greece that spanned over two millennia. They involved a special drink (kykeon), visions, and conjuring of an afterlife. Discovered in Eleusinian temples were fragments of ergot (a fungus containing psychedelic alkaloids, pre-cursors to LSD).
b66mN TIL that 3 current colleges in the U.S. were established in the 1600s: Harvard University (1636), College of William & Mary (1693) and St. John's College (1696)