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TIL Two Maneless 9ft long Man-Eating Lions ate over 135 workers on the Kenya-Uganda railway in 1898

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p8Bjb TIL Siamese cats are temperature sensitive albinos which cause cooler body parts to be darker and warmer parts to be lighter. As they get older, their body temperature decreases and overall color darkens.
8Vd4 TIL that when electricity was first used for other purposes other than lighting electricity companies charged more for non lighting electricity. This lead to people creating light bulb sockets adapters to plug in other devices like toasters.
PLLO TIL Joseph Stalin’s son Yakov, shot himself because of Stalin’s harshness toward him, but survived. Afterwards, Stalin said “He can’t even shoot straight”
697jJ TIL Fifty-seven percent of Afghan women marry before 16 years of age, 29% are forced into marriage to settle tribal conflicts, 84% are illiterate, and the average woman gives birth to eight children. Afghan women also have the highest prevalence of self-immolation in the world.
edA5 TIL that Ostriches can run faster than horses, they DON’T bury their heads in sand, and the males can roar like lions.