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TIL that mushrooms are more closely related to humans than to plants

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9LyM TIL French Bulldogs are anatomically unable to mate and have to be artificially inseminated.
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.”
jokp TIL that two companies represent 35 percent of South Korea’s GDP: Samsung (23%) and Hyundai (12%)
YndZ TIL that pirates wore eye patches so they could keep one eye adjusted to the darkness below the deck of the ship. If they had to quickly run back and forth between the upper and lower decks, they could just flip the eye patch up or down.
Aoxa TIL that Howard Stern ran for Governor of New York in 1994 promising to limit road work to night hours. He eventually withdrew, but later that year, The Howard Stern Bill was signed into law which limited road construction in New York City and Long Island to night hours.