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TIL that monkeys with smaller testicles scream louder to compensate

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9OY6 TIL that when South Korea representatives open the door at the DMZ meeting room for the North, they hold hands to prevent being pulled across the border.
LBev TIL once 4th largest lake in the world, the Aral Sea, has declined to only 10% of its original size since the 1960’s. The shrinking of the Aral Sea has been called one of the planet’s worst environmental disasters.
vPan7 TIL that around 60,000 Australian soldiers and 3,900 New Zealand soldiers fought in the Vietnam war alongside the USA between 1962/64 -1972
QJGg6 TIL there are wild monkeys in Florida with a herpes virus outbreak that is deadly to humans.
egkn TIL Nicholas Saunderson (1683-1739) lost his eyes to smallpox before he was a year old, yet he taught himself to read by tracing the letters on gravestones and learned languages and mathematics by pricking holes in paper. He became the fourth professor of Mathematics at Cambridge.