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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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PYYEG TIL bears and seals share a common ancestor under the infraorder Arctoidea, the same infraorder that also includes red pandas, skunks, wolverines and more in Musteloidea.
KY1Q TIL that Greco-Roman wrestling was invented by a french soldier, and named Greco-Roman to make people think it was the sport practiced in the classic civilizations.
XE8GD TIL that fragile self-esteem is a core component of narcissism and personality disorders, conversely, unstable high self-esteem is actually another form of fragile self-esteem.
6EwX8 TIL that people scored higher in a mental agility test while wearing a lab coat that they believed was a doctor's coat. The effect was not there when they believed the same white coat was a painter's coat. The study showed that we embody associations we have with particular clothes.
QV4L TIL that farmers put magnets into the stomach of cows so that they attract metal parts the cow accidentally ate to prevent them from becoming lodged in the animal’s tissue(which is know as hardware disease)