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TIL hungry men tend to be more attracted to women with higher body weight than men who have eaten.

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M4k8 TIL Chuck Close is a painter who is suffering from prosopagnosia, which means he can’t recognize or remember faces, has used this disability to make large ultra realistic paintings of faces.
VdnQ Til that today is also the celebration of St Gertrude, the patron saint of cats, gardeners, and mental illness.
dD778 TIL the sound a whip makes when you crack it is caused by a sonic boom created when the tip of a whip moves faster than the speed of sound. The whip was also the first man made object to break the sound barrier.
4kmag TIL the Railroad Commission of Texas hasn't regulated railroads since 2005. Today it mostly regulates the oil and gas industry and gas utilities.
XEy9R TIL saltwater crocodiles sometimes venture into open ocean, can travel hundreds of kilometers in a matter of days using ocean currents, and can spend so long in the ocean that barnacles begin to grow on their scales.