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A third of Americans believe Covid-19 laboratory conspiracy theory.

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R5kY6 TIL That the late character actor Charles Durning, who was a WWII veteran, was not only the sole survivor of a unit during the Normandy invasion but was one of only three men to escape the infamous Malmedy Massacre during the Battle of the Bulge.
Me6ba TIL the Ancient Greek author Diodorus Siculus wrote that the people of Spain's Balearic Islands loved to be naked & loved women. The Greeks called the islands Gymnesiae meaning naked (γυμνοί) & legend states the the inhabitants would give 3 or 4 men as ransom for 1 woman.
ANQ17 TIL that the late president of Nintendo Hiroshi Yamauchi owned the Seattle Mariners baseball team. He had never been to a baseball game before buying the team, and despite owning the Mariners for over 20 years, never attended a single one of their games.
vPmKK TIL that unlike motherhood, fatherhood is not mentioned in Universal Declaration of Human rights.
xVoQ7 TIL: Certain mammals such as the red kangaroo or roe deer can perform Embryonic Diapause- the ability to "pause" embryo development in unfavorable environmental conditions, effectively saving the embryo and the mother's life in bad conditions.