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TIL that Rwanda is the only country in the world with a female majority in parliament

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wJJ7 TIL scientists discovered a female boa constrictor which could reproduce asexually. She produced two large litters of female babies, but unlike normal female boa constrictors these babies had two W chromosomes, instead of one Z and one W chromosome
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