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TIL Leonard Nimoy directed the film Three Men and a Baby

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MePm0 TIL Women with Neandertal gene give birth to more children! One in three women in Europe inherited the receptor for progesterone from Neandertals – a gene variant associated with increased fertility, fewer bleedings during early pregnancy and fewer miscarriages.
e0mnD TIL 49 out of 50 states in America charge inmates for the cost of their own incarceration
J1JNm TIL that the NCAA was originally founded to protect college athletes from the brutality of early college football. In 1904 alone, there were 159 serious injuries and 18 deaths on the field.
QwBk TIL the longest Cricket Test match was played over 12 days between England and South Africa and it was eventually abandoned, otherwise the England team would have missed the boat for home.
wRko TIL In 1984, a 1-year-old received a heart transplant from a baboon but ended up dying 21 days later due to rejection. When questioned with why a baboon and not a primate more closely related to humans, the surgeon said he didn’t believe in evolution.