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TIL that scientists gave a bunch of coked up monkeys amphetamines to see if they would stop ‘choosing’ cocaine

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5VYXk TIL of the Potato Park. A seed bank in Peru, it is managed by Indigenous communities and focuses on Andean crops and plants. It specialises in potatoes, and houses samples of 2300 of the 4000 varieties in the world
E15Vp TIL that there are at least 7 kinds of popcorn. 4yellow, 1red, 1blue, 1purple. Mostly all shades of white. But only 1 is a different shape!
bGN9 TIL That the word phoney comes from the name for an Irish scam called “Fawney Ring” In which someone is sold a fake golden ring
W7yy8 TIL Companies save more than $3 billion a year in unspent gift cards.
e0rw4 TIL 94% of male giraffe sexual encounters are with other male giraffes. Every 16 out of 17 mountings in a 3 year Tanzanian national park study we’re male-on-male mountings. 9 of the 16 mountings featured an unsheathed penis.