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TIL That male homosexuality might be caused by the mother's immune system---which may mistake male-specific proteins on the Y-chromosome as pathogens and "attack" them, resulting in developmental quirks

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78YkX TIL Olive oil is actually "juice"
6ErkW TIL 58% of Americans Blamed the Students for Their Own Deaths in the Kent State Massacre, while 11% Blamed the National Guard, According to a Gallup Poll Taken at the Time.
d8B8Z TIL President Theodore Roosevelt was such a loud snorer that during his hospital stays he had a whole floor to himself so the other patients could sleep
8eMAa TIL the last surviving former slave in the US, Peter Mills died in 1972, aged 110 after being involved in a pedestrian accident
KOJR TIL if officials awarded Lance Armstrong’s 2005 Tour De France title to the next fastest finisher who has never been linked to doping, they’d have to give it to the 23rd place finisher