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TIL most Helium on earth is the result of radioactive decay of Uranium and Thorium in the earth’s crust

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rNNNM TIL why brain size doesn't correlate with intelligence. People have long been tempted to link brain size and cognition. The intuitive notion that a “big brain” means “more intelligent” was first threatened some time ago, when we discovered animals with larger brains than ours: elephants and whales.
rW9M TIL in Japan, the “Logitech” brand is called “Logicool”.
69ZZ TIL male dolphins assert their authority by forcefully raping other males.
QNdL9 TIL that Samuel L. Jackson agreed to star in "Snakes on a Plane", and then the producers tried to change the title but didn't because Jackson agreed to do the film because of the title.
b6l04 TIL One of the first victims of the Nazis was Dora Ritcher, a transwoman who was the first to through male to female gender reassignment surgery