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TIL Female Humans are considered the “fundamental” sex because all fertilized eggs become females unless a single gene in the Y chromosome is present.

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R5L6Q TIL bobcats can breed with lynxes to produce blynxes
VBoOQ TIL That when Jeanette Rankin took her seat as Montana's Congresswoman in the United States House of Representatives in 1917, she became the first woman ever elected to sit in a national parliament. To date, she is also the only woman ever elected to represent Montana in Congress.
eOXb TIL: Loneliness can be just as deadly as smoking cigarettes, it is considered a serious life threatening health condition.
e00pn TIL in 1930, Ellen Church (a licensed pilot herself) persuaded airlines to change their minds about hiring females by challenging them: “Don’t you think that it would be good psychology to have women up in the air? How is a man going to say he is afraid to fly when a woman is working on the plane?”.
dgyj TIL A nuclear bomb was accidentally dropped on or near Tybee Island, GA. It didn’t detonate, some saying it didn’t have a fuse, but has also never been located.