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

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grZY8 TIL that the European Union suppressed a 300-page study that found piracy doesn’t harm sales
b6LEa TIL of "su filindeu" ("Threads of God"), a pasta so intricate it's considered one of the rarest pastas in the world. Made by only three women on Earth, attempts by others to recreate the techniques involved in its creation have proven impossible.
N7XmN TIL there was a British sitcom with a running gag where a middle-aged saleswoman ambiguously refers to her "pussy"
wLAWY TIL about Download Valley. A cluster of software companies in Israel, producing and delivering adware to be installed alongside downloads of other software.
JYkp4 TIL that Eunice Hunton Carter, a black female assistant district attorney, built the investigative case resulting in the 1936 conviction against mob boss Lucky Luciano. She was the first African American woman both to graduate from Fordham Law School, and then to serve as ADA in New York.