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TIL Unlike male chimpanzees, male bonobos do not experience a strong rise in testosterone during puberty

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bbl4 TIL that a Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, a Medieval Persian scholar, put forward the basic theory of evolution 600 years before Darwin was born
jW1a TIL Killer Whales are able to learn to speak Dolphin. When killer whales were socialized with bottlenose dolphins at a water facility, they changed the types of sounds they made to resemble those of their social partners
neDv7 TIL Adolph Coors III, heir to the Coors Brewing Company, was murdered in an attempted kidnapping.
4XnAw TIL The American soldiers guarding Saddam Hussein grew to have an attachment to him. At his execution, they were distraught, feeling like they betrayed and murdered a close friend or family member.
VMawp TIL of the Winterberg tunnel; which , during WW1 was sealed shut by French artillery fire trapping the 270 German soldier inside. Over the next six days, as oxygen ran out, they either suffocated or took their own lives. Some asked comrades to kill them. The tunnel has just been discovered.