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TIL Humans don't have strong olfactory skills and kissing allows you to smell and taste a person and see if you have different immune responses as we tend to feel more attracted to someone with a different immune response

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MaRA TIL there was a pod of killer whales in Eden, Australia between 1840 and 1930 that would assist whalers in hunting baleen whales. The killer whales would find target whales, shepherd them into Twofold Bay, and alert whalers to their presence, often helping them to kill the whales.
QJ60X TIL people suffering from schizophrenia or autism are less likely to be fooled by "hollow face" illusions or other optical illusions that mess with depth perception and perspective. After successful treatment for schizophrenia, the illusion is more likely to fool them.
QJ5B6 TIL in 2012, State Prisoners tasked with producing the State Seal decals for State Trooper cruisers, modified one of the spots on a cow in the state seal to look like a PIG
E1Xl7 TIL Famed Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen once believed tamed polar bears would be a better choice than dogs for pulling sledges. He tried to tame a bear cub he’d captured on a trip to the Arctic but killed it with chloroform after it attacked him. The stuffed cub resides in a museum near Oslo.
D1OOp TIL that in 1998, Sony released a camcorder that had "night vision" capabilities using infrared. The same infrared technology allowed the camera to see through people's clothes. 700,000 camcorders were sold before they were recalled.