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

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wL0LE Today i learned about Great Zimbabwe, largest settlement ruins in sub-saharan Arica which also tradet with Arab-Indian states. When european colonists saw it, they claimed it was too complex to be of african origins, and ordered historians to dispute the evidence of its african history.
OGQa4 TIL about Rocky, a black bear who served as a paratrooper in the Korean War and is a Purple Heart recipient
oBggA TIL Ciabatta bread was invented in 1982
9YXRr TIL that in 1864 John A. Macdonald - the first Prime Minister of Canada famously vomited on stage during a debate with his Liberal party opponent, later remarking that it was not that he was drunk, but that the arguments of his honourable opponent made him sick
6ob8 TIL Norway has the highest rate of gun ownership of any Western European country at 32%. It also has the lowest murder rate.