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TIL that all women are born with different amounts of eggs (oocytes) due to genetics, and some women can have as many as 50x more eggs than another woman!

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PvxE TIL of the Fossa, a large carnivore and the top predator in Madagascar - but it isnt a cat, being more closely related to the mongoose family. And its scientific name, is derived from the fact that it has a concealed anus
mmAP TIL Rage Against The Machine was told to censor the lyrics of Killing In The Name when performing live for BBC. They started out censored before launching into the full lyrics, which are “F*ck you, I won’t do what you tell me!”
78Ynp TIL that Dia de los Muertos, despite popular associations with pre-colonial Aztec culture, may have been almost entirely invented in the 1900s by Mexican nationalists
j6AMN TIL Canada geese eggs are "aborted" by coating the eggs with corn oil for population control. Simply removing or destroying the eggs will just result in the geese laying more eggs
D1XQJ TIL that the statutes of limitations in some US states for sexual crimes against children includes a provision that lowers the amount of years if the victim "reasonably should have discovered" the abuse