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TIL that (almost) everybody is your 16th cousin

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9wQBr TIL that the first human death by a Southern Cassowary was in Australia in 1926, when the bird defeated two brothers who were trying to hunt it. The older brother was killed via his jugular vein being cut, and the younger brother was scared off after being knocked over.
rvB1 TIL a study published British Journal of Psychology concluded that those with higher intelligence don’t require large social circles to be happy