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TIL that because few men reproduce with many women, 2/3 of your ancestors are female, not ½. Also, overall throughout humanity 80% of females end up reproducing, while only 40% of males do

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4k4P6 TIL of the Battle of Caribou, in which neither the US nor Canada lost any troops due to combat - but a couple of armed Canadian lumberjacks were injured by bears.
b6kMj TIL the Easter Whip tradition in the Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, and parts of Hungary involves splashing girls with water and spanking them with decorated willow branches on Easter Monday. This is believed to ensure their health, beauty, and fertility for the next year.
Zp9kQ TIL that Joseph Petrosino an NYPD officer, warned President McKinley that there was an assassination plot due to take place against him, in Buffalo New York. McKinley brushed off the warning, and was duly assassinated.
ND4M TIL that in 2007, a 75 year old woman smashed up a Comcast office with a hammer because she was fed up with their poor customer service
VMep TIL George Koval: Soviet master spy that infiltrated the Manhattan project, stole nearly all of our nuclear secrets, single-handedly provided the key technology for Russia’s nuclear arsenal, and was only discovered as a spy in 2002.