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TIL of Williams Syndrome, a condition that makes you friendly

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8jW4 TIL that If the earth would be a 40 year old guy, humans would have been using tools for a week and a half, and just left Africa 8 hours ago to settle around the globe
jNkrj TIL about behavioral sink, an experiment with rats in a technically perfect and utopian situation; the behavior of rats in an overcrowding place lead to cannibalism, alienation and rabid violence, amongst other perversion, simply because there were more mice than social roles.
XEKpj TIL during the 1967 war between Biafra and Nigeria, Biafra established a puppet state called the Republic of Benin, that lasted one day before being occupied by Nigeria.
lo4r1 TIL the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova won multiple elections, forming a majority government from 2001 to 2009. Communists rarely achieve peaceful transfers of power in multiparty democracies; Moldova is the only European state to be governed by communists since the fall of the USSR.
Bg67d TIL Celine Dion's Olympics song, 'Hymne à l'amour', was written by Edith Piaf for her lover following his death en route to meet her in New York