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TIL Male mice are utterly terrified of bananas

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E1XgX TIL that the owner of the Café de la Rotonde in Paris would allow starving artists to pay for their drinks with a painting or drawing. In the 1900s the walls of the cafe would have been casually adorned with works now considered priceless.
6Er0m TIL about the Costasiella kuroshimae (AKA "leaf slug" or "leaf sheep"), a species of sacoglossan sea slug that has the ability to retain the chloroplasts from the algae it feeds on and use them to photosynthesize its own energy.
OG4Kg TIL the Republic of Benin existed for just seven hours on September 19, 1967, making it one of the shortest-lived states ever.
NXZE6 TIL the American Teenager who Joined and Fought for Al Qeda before 9/11 was released from prison in 2019.
ZYZB TIL that the ‘50% of marriages end in divorce’ claim is a myth; the overall rate has never exceeded 41%, has been declining from that high since the 1980s, and the divorce rate for college graduates is probably under 25%