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TIL a guy is more likely to be gay if he went through puberty earlier

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1D TIL Charles Darwin married his cousin, but only after making a list of pros and cons, one of the cons being “less money for books”
bWb9 TIL many years after Octavian agreed to Cicero’s name being placed on the proscription list, Octavian found his grandson reading a book by Cicero, he took it from him, read a bit of it, and then returned it saying: “He was a learned man, dear child, a learned man who loved his country”.
R50W6 TIL Japanese beekeepers use the pheromone threat response from wasps to trap them in glue traps to keep their hives safe
9wQ0D TIL that Bill Gates was so addicted to Minesweeper, he used to sneak into then-Microsoft President Michael Hallman's office after work to play it, as he had uninstalled the game from his computer
6ELyw TIL that China has restricted the use of geographic systems to only specific authorized entities, causing crowdsourced mapping efforts such as OpenStreetMap to be unlawful. They use a specific coordinate system known as GCJ-02, that intentionally offset places from their true location.