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TIL that over 10,000 people have won the 72 ounce steak challenge

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X0ZdP TIL Manfred Clyne proved human emotions to be transmissible via a recording of pressure sensitive clicks. Aborigines in Central Australia were able to correctly identify emotions from sounds derived from the touch of white urban Americans
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