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TIL Up until the 1960’s, poor Swiss children could be auctioned to farmers using them as a source of cheap labour

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oano TIL a small part of the brain that controls sexual behavior is twice as large in men than in women, except for gay men. A human study found that in most gay men, this area is significantly smaller than in straight men. The same phenomenon has been found in homosexual rams.
R5n9j TIL that +/- 42k years ago, the “Adam’s Event”, a reversal of Earth’s magnetic poles, may have led to the extinction of mega fauna, Neanderthals, and forced humans into caves as the earth experienced intense periods of cosmic radiation, solar winds, electrical storms, and drastic climate change.
mpmp TIL that in 1900, Italian King Umberto met a restaurant owner who looked exactly like himself. After speaking, they learned that they were born on the same day, of the same year, in the same town, and married a wife of the same name. They would both go on to be murdered the next day.
o5mL TIL The Shot at Dawn Memorial in Staffordshire, UK is a monument to to servicemen executed by firing squad during WWI. It is alleged that soldiers accused of cowardice were often not given fair trials; they were often not properly defended, suffering from shell shock, and some were minors.
oRJDW TIL the Nazis, and Hitler in particular, based much of their expansionism and discriminatory laws on the American treatment of Native Americans