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TIL that scientists put horses in black-and-white striped costumes to try and find out why zebras are stripy. It seems that the stripes make flies less likely to land on them.

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p8Wd4 TIL it is considered important in Kazakh culture for each individual to know their family tree back at least seven generations. This is due to a strong tradition of oral history.
78GpO TIL About 70 percent of the material for the original Human Genome Project came from some dude in Buffalo, NY.
jNbgQ TIL that the difference between a healthy fear and clinical phobia is not logic. You can be afraid of anything , like this person who had a celebrity phobia. She was afraid of Hugh Jackman.
nWxlW Today I learned that tampons can also be used for wounds and bloody noses besides menstruation cycles
b9L87 TIL That nobody really knows how to correctly play Beethoven's famous "Für Elise" - original notes were never found and were published years after Beethoven's death by Ludwig Nohl. Pianists are still arguing how to play this piece.