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TIL: In one study, women closer to the peak of their ovulatory cycle were able to identify heterosexual and homosexual men significantly better than their non-ovulating counter parts.

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Ajll TIL that a German explorer/soldier became famous for evading capture by British forces in New Guinea during WWI. Hermann Detzner’s book ‘Four Years Among the Cannibals’ detailed his exploits and remarkable scientific discoveries. He made everything up, and just hid in one place for four years.
d8DJK TIL about a shipping container that was filled with rubber duckies who got lost at sea in 1992. The bath toys are still washing ashore today at many different locations such as Australia, Scotland and even Alaska.
78oRb TIL Puff Daddy was a background dancer before he became a music mogul. He's a background dancer in the 1989 music video "What You Need" by Stacy Lattisaw.
6XLZ TIL A 20 year-old woman was kept as a (sex-)slave in a box for 23 hours a day between 1977 and 1984; at one point she was permitted to even visit her family, yet still returned to her captors.
XE0dR TIL that the last "wild" American Indian - Ishi - walked out into the Western world near Oroville, California in 1911