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TIL that the 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs is actually a sequel, with the first in the Hannibal Lector series being Manhunter from 1986.

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VMJrm TIL That women are better at discerning shades of colours, while men are better at tracking fast-moving objects and discerning detail from a distance. These are evolutionary details linked to a hunter-gatherer past.
wLMO7 TIL: In the 2004 Afghan election, the government instructed illiterate voters to draw an icon for their candidate, but both progressives and traditionalists were represented by drawing a book. One was meant to represent secular education, the other the Quran.
yVXkJ TIL that unlike humans with 46 total chromosomes, great apes such as the chimpanzee have 48. So do potatoes. No, there is no relation.
8aZX TIL Dead ants give off a scent to signal other ants that they need to be carried away. The dead are brought to a designated graveyard in order to avoid bacteria spreading.
X0VP8 TIL That Robert Todd Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln, was present for three of America’s four presidential assassinations (Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley)