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TIL Ben Franklin wrote a scientific essay about farts called “Fart Proudly”

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e0A7n TIL Prairie dogs have different calls to communicate about humans that they've seen. "They're able to describe the colour of clothes the humans are wearing, they're able to describe the size and shape of humans, even, amazingly, whether a human once appeared with a gun,"
MemP8 TIL Female mummies in Ancient Egypt were always more decomposed than their male counterparts. They discovered that this was because male bodies were embalmed a lot sooner than female bodies. Female bodies were kept at the family home until they started to decompose in order to avoid necrophilia.
OlZX TIL The actor who plays Kickass married his wife aged 48 just a week after he turned 22 and adopted her last name
rEXo TIL Malta holds the record for the longest sustained bombing attack at 154 consecutive days and nights during WWII. For their resilience, every citizen on the island was awarded Britain’s George Cross for bravery.
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