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TIL South African mercenaries were hired in the fight against Boko Haram

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Rbe1 TIL a Hungarian psychologist wrote a book on how to raise a genius. He proposed his ideas to a teacher. They married and raised three chess grandmasters, two of them became record-breakers and one even became the first female to beat the top ranked male (Gary Kasporov).
oBbRK TIL around 8,000 years ago, a 25-40m tsunami struck the east coast of the UK due to ice falling into the North Sea from Norway, delivering a devastating, if not final, blow to Doggerland, a dry land connection between them and mainland Europe.
JYJyV TIL that Oral Sex can be really bad for your neck
4Km6 TIL - Nearly 1% of women in the U.S. claim to have given virgin births
5Y7er TIL Bee's deposit a small positive electric charge on each flower they visit. They also posses "Electroreception" which allows them to detect the presence of electric fields on flowers. They use this info to know if a flower has been recently visited by another bee and therefore has less nectar.