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TIL: Pikachu is more recognizable than Mickey Mouse

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7nb7 TIL that in medieval times, homosexuals and adulterous women were punished by a device that stretched their vagina or anus until they die.
BgKay TIL Throughout recorded history, a wild orca has never killed a human, even though they are capable of ending even a greath white shark. Captive orcas have however have killed 4 people, out of which 3 were done by the same specimen.
0wN81 TIL Pangaea was not the first supercontinent. That honor goes to the billion year old landmass known as Rodinia. The continents routinely split apart and come back together, a process known as the supercontinent cycle.
XDWR TIL The 3.6m year old Laetoli footprints, one of the most important finds concerning Human evolution and evidence of upright bipedal walking, was discovered by Paleoanthropologist Andrew Hill when he dove into the ground during the middle of an elephant dung fight with a colleague.
Gno5 TIL that the second rainbow in a double rainbow is always inverted. (amazed I never saw this before.)