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2019

TIL If the Australian Bull Ant is cut in half, both halves will battle each other to the death “…every time the experiment is tried.”

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WRad TIL the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the WHO, the U.K. Royal Society, the French Academy of Sciences, and the EC have all concluded that GMO crops pose NO risk to human health. No case of human illness or allergy has ever been directly attributed to genetically modified crops.
rRmOM TIL The ‘small penis rule’ describes a way fiction authors use to avoid libel suits. Characters are given small penises so that no one will come forward and say a character is like them as no male will admit to having a small penis.
loYJ1 TIL that 7ft tall people are so rare that if you know an American man between 20 & 40 who is 7ft tall, there's a 17% chance he's in the NBA
9yA6 TIL When Mel Brooks developed Spaceballs, he wanted his parody as close to the original as possible. Brooks’s deal with George Lucas on the parody was no Spaceballs action figures be made. According to Brooks, “Lucas said, ‘Your action figures are going to look like mine.’ I said OK.”
JYx01 TIL since the 1980s the global twinning rate has increased by 1/3, or about 1.6 million twin pairs each year, which is more twin births than ever and peaking at an unprecedented level. Asia and Africa are currently home to 80% of all twin deliveries in the world.