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TIL: That cocaine increases dopamine levels by roughly 250% in comparison with 100% from sex and %50 from food

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neb7d TIL In the year 2000, in what is considered the most dominant season of golf in history, Tiger Woods was 160 under for 36 rounds and averaged a staggering 67.33. He had a total of 9 wins, 3 being in a row.
MdEV TIL The cheese used by major pizza companies (Dominoes, Papa Johns, Pizza Hut) is monopolized by a single cheese company, Leprino Foods, which has control over 85% of the pizza cheese market.
LkgJQ TIL the Aztecs made swords embedded with prismatic obsidian blades that are far sharper than even high quality present day steel razor blades.
Xx9R TIL that a US submarine placed a wire tap on Russian undersea cables to monitor secret military communications during the Cold War, and only found the cable after a week of searching because of a sign on the shore saying “Cable Here. Do Not Anchor.”
4kMDa TIL: Atlanta is known as the “City in a Forest” for the most heavily forested urban area in the country”. Tree canopy covers 47.9% of Atlanta