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TIL: San Fransisco has very few cemeteries. But the city was once full of cemeteries. As San Francisco's population rapidly grew, "people turned against the cemeteries". Eventually, most of the cemeteries were dug up and transferred out of the city.

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avxy TIL that eating meat, in a way, is responsible for us humans having a big brain, and that its hypothesized that if gorillas ate meat too, that after many years, they could be as advanced as we were in more primitive times.