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TIL: a russian farmer’s wife gave birth to 69 children, 16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets… when she died her husband remarried and had another 18 kids.

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p8j5O TIL that the oldest dingo fossils in Australia are about 4,000 years old, so dingoes’ ancestors must have reached Australia by boat. Whole-genome studies consistently place dingoes between wolves and wolflike dog breeds.
K9y6 TIL the length of horse hair is strongly related to the amount of sunlight it gets.
xe7o TIL last year we found 1,458 new species of bacteria living in the bellybutton, everyone’s bellybutton ecology is unique like a fingerprint, and one volunteer’s belly button harbored bacteria that had previously been found only in soil from Japan, where he had never been.
PWV TIL there is a spider that can live at elevations >20 000 ft. It relies on bugs being blown to those heights by the wind for food.
VBW6B TIL that before the Civil War there were 8,000 different kinds of money in circulation in the US - the same banknote had different value depending on location