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TIL that contrary to popular belief, having shorter hair doesn't prevent, nor remove hair lice as the bugs attach themselves to the scalp, rather than the hair follicles.

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9EKD TIL Harriet the Tortoise died in an Australian zoo at the age of 176. She was born before the light bulb (not just Edison’s) and the first power plant. Her death was announced on CNN. She was brought back from the Galapagos by a young scientist named Charles Darwin.
XEgDj TIL : Koro the phobia of losing one's penis is triggered by rumors of genital disappearance supposedly caused in China by female fox spirits, in Singapore and Thailand by mass poisoning, and in Africa by sorcery, usually in the context of socioeconomic or political tension.
ZPVa TIL that through 50 years of experimentation investigating the domestication of wolves, scientists in the USSR (and later Russia) successfully domesticated the Silver Fox, a breed of foxes that behave like dogs
D1a5D TIL in 332 BC when Alexander the Great arrived in Egypt they did not put up a fight against him, instead saw him as a liberator from the Persian empire, he was pronounced son of the deity Amun at the Oracle of Siwa Oasis in the Libyan desert.
4k04N TIL a teen who had a diet of French fries, Pringles, white bread, and an occasional slice of ham or sausage was found to have severe vitamin deficiencies and malnutrition damage, and he had developed blind spots in the middle of his vision. It is stated that his sight loss is permanent.