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TIL Smarter Men Are Less Aggressive in Relationships and More Committed

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yDja TIL In 2013 Scientists wired the brains of two rats together and showed that signals from one rat’s brain can help the second rat solve a problem it would otherwise have no clue how to solve.
W7QlA TIL while Stan Bush's "The Touch" is associated with the 1986 Transformers animated movie, it was originally written for Sylvester Stallone's Cobra — which was in turn a violent reinterpretation of Beverly Hills Cop.
e5dg TIL During the Winter War Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov said the soviet planes over Finland were not bombers but humanitarian food drops. The Finns responded by naming their improvised explosives Molotov Cocktails, “A drink to go with the food.”
Z8pQQ TIL during the burning of Washington DC in the war of 1812, British commander Sir George Cockburn ordered his soldiers to destroy a newspaper printing house, and stated "Be sure that all the C's are destroyed, so that the rascals cannot any longer abuse my name."
LkGK0 TIL of the California Fur Rush, which occurred in the early to mid 19th century. It happened due to large beaver and otter populations and helped open up the West and especially the San Francisco area to world trade. However, this drove many mammal populations to the brink of extinction.