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TIL The Crown Prince of Albania once used a bazooka to defend himself from soldiers in Gabon.

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P0LE TIL thousands of historic maps are available for download by the Library of Congress.
grQ9 TIL that “research on one-day-old babies has found that boys look longer at a mechanical mobile while girls look longer at a face. This, as well as the effects of fetal testosterone on later behavior, is argued to be evidence against the sex differences being only due to socialization.”
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