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TIL that the smell of women’s tears reduce men’s sexual desire

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Aryn TIL French Queen Marie Antoinette had a fully functioning peasant village built on the grounds of Versailles. She loved strolling the village in simple shepherdess garb pretending to live a simple life milking cows or sheep, which were carefully maintained and cleaned by the servants.
GY1kE TIL a woman who claimed to be abducted by aliens in 1961 later recreated a star map she remembered and a statistician concluded she had a 1 in 1000 chance of randomly guessing a valid pattern if she was making it all up. It was valid.
ZAbR TIL Cats bring you dead animals not as a gift, rather because they think you don’t know how to hunt and want to teach you.
jo1N TIL the “Overton Window” is political shorthand for pitching an outrageous idea first in order to make a less radical idea seem more appealing
v7d8 TIL that a gene mutation allows a very small number of people to naturally sleep four hours per night, with no effects on mental or physical health. This would be evolution.