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Truffles

Secretly Incredibly Fascinating

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Androstenol Is a Thing, Right?

There's no evolutionary advantage to making people want to have sex more for the plant. There was a chemist named Tari Talu at the Palatechnic Institute of Toulouse in France. He didn't experiment where they offered pigs a choice. Androstenol actually varies by soil and situation, but that and further studies have found like the key compound for attracting pigs is dimethyl sulfide.

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