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TIL Only about 60-80% of your height is due to genetics, the rest is mainly due to nutrition.

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womk7 TIL: Anxiety can cause arousal. 87% of the times I thought I was horny, I was probably panicking
1Ko8 TIL H. L. Mencken when writing about the US Presidency predicted that “On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
JYPOl TIL scientists put slime mold over a map of Tokyo, with food used to represent urban areas, after a day the mold created a network nearly identical to Tokyo's rail network. Which was designed to be as efficient as possible, the slime mold did the same, but without a brain.
pQWe TIL that when monkeys are taught to recognize themselves in the mirror, the first thing they do after recognizing themselves in the mirror is to inspect their genitals.
ne5rY TIL a Pittsburgh history museum possesses a mummified human foot donated by Andy Warhol, who found it at a flea market.