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TIL that contrary to common misconception, hunters and gatherers are mostly well fed, rather than starving.

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4mpR TIL in his final days Lyndon B. Johnson would listen to “Bridge Over Troubled Water” by Simon and Garfunkel repeatedly while agonizing over his legacy; worrying that he would only be remembered for the Vietnam War and not as the architect of equal rights and Medicare.
E1OWX TIL Due to intense metabolic demands of flight which in turn cause constant high levels of inflammation, bats have evolved ways to dampen their immune response towards the inflammation and this explains their ability to carry and transmit some of the world’s deadliest zoonotic viruses.
9AyD TIL of a half plant, half animal sea slug that eats algae to gain their photosynthetic powers, now needing only sunlight to survive.
9wynr TIL that Ozzy Osbourne once met with a German record executive while drunk. He tried to “lighten the mood” by performing a striptease and kissing the executive on the lips. The situation then escalated to him goose-stepping up and down the table and urinating in the exec’s wine.
RB89 TIL 8% of Canadians have had sex in a canoe.