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TIL infants initially defecate in diapers because they have not yet been taught how to use the toilet.

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oGVY TIL that city life is potentially diverging a population of raccoons down an alternate evolutionary path in comparison to their rural counterparts. City raccoons show higher intelligence and just a few decades of city life has changed raccoon populations more than the previous 40,000 years.
a8DyN TIL Stepwells are wells or ponds with a long corridor of steps that descend to the water level and were created to cope with seasonal fluctuations in water availability in South Asia.
P11pE TIL that a story exists in the mythology of the Chinook peoples where an anthropomorphic coyote is insulted, and later taught to catch salmon, by a talking pile of his own feces
l71PN Today I Learned How To Build A Natural Shelter
GYRn4 TIL that Bertha Benz became the first person to drive a car over more than a short distance when she took her husband's new invention without his knowledge and drove up to her mother's house to prove that the invention will be successful once it's shown to be useful