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TIL that Roman fathers were allowed to kill their children
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TIL Plants lace their nectar with caffeine to keep pollinators loyal.
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TIL about the "Grievance Studies affair" where three academics produced bogus papers to expose how lax academic journals had become. One paper that was accepted and published by the Journal Affilia included long excerpts from Hitlers Mein Kampf where the word "Jew" was replaced with "White Man".
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TIL that scientists have successfully revived microscopic animals called bdelloid rotifers that were frozen in Siberian permafrost for 24,000 years.
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TIL that in 2010, Pauley Perrette, the quirky goth scientist girl from NCIS had the 3rd highest Q Score (likability) of any actor working, the same as Tom Hanks and Morgan Freeman.
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TIL that eating horse meat, while relatively common in Continental Europe, is seen as taboo in English-speaking countries