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TIL that a larger brain generally means a longer yawn

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e0m9J TIL Monarch Butterflies generally live for a couple weeks, until the 4th generation that lives for 6 to 8 months to migrate south.
aXy9 TIL that Lord Collingwood, Nelson’s second in command at the Battle of Trafalgar, would carry a pocket full of acorns on walks in the countryside, planting them as he went so the ‘Navy would never want for oaks to build the fighting ships upon which the country’s safety depended.’
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