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TIL that females may be attracted towards promiscuous males because that would increase her sons’ future breeding successes, a phenomenon known as the Sexy Son Hypothesis.

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9lNM TIL ‘The Bloop’, a loud and ultra-low frequency sound picked up by the NOAA in 1997 and heard at listening stations underwater over 5,000km apart, was not a “sea monster” but the sound of an ice shelf breaking off of Antarctica – an icequake.
BrG5x TIL the famous Ralph Wiggum in danger meme is ironically not from a Simpsons episode but from a Family Guy crossover episode with the show.
W7ErY TIL about Ponte City, a 55 story circular apartment building in Johannesburg, South Africa. Built in 1975, in the 80s gang activity made the area very unsafe and garbage thrown into the open core reached 5 stories high. It has since been restored and is once again a desirable place to live.
rRnVy TIL GPS originated after American scientists scrambled to track Sputnik.
4ynN TIL when President Chaim Weizmann died in 1952, Einstein was asked to be Israel’s second president, but he declined, stating that he had “neither the natural ability nor the experience to deal with human beings.”