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gM4bX TIL That evolution is faster in primates with larger testicles. A study of 55 species of primates found that there was a relationship between testicle size and genome mutation rates.
NXlDN TIL Adolf Hitler's father was named Alois Schicklgruber to match his mother's surname. He changed his surname to Hitler to match his stepfather.
lWoG TIL that the hoatzin is the last surviving species of a line of birds that diverged from all other birds 64 million years ago, just after the dinosaur extinction event, and that hoatzin chicks have claws on their wings
9Yn9p TIL there's an annual horseback competition where people ride 100 miles in less than 24 hours over craggy, mountainous terrain, with the best averaging 15 hours
KbkQ TIL that in 1933 Soviet Russia dumped 6200 people on an island in Siberia and left them to their fate. A month later 4000 of them were dead.