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TIL there is a fruit tree called peepal reminiscent of the Alan Watts speech regarding trees peopling

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Qxe TIL Zablon Simintov is the only jew left in Afghanistan
loppa TIL when all remaining California condors were captured to ensure their survival, they were de-loused. In doing so, conservationists killed all remaining individuals of a species of louse (Colpocephalum californici) that lived exclusively on the California condor, inadvertantly causing an extinction
x6OM7 TIL an fMRI study mapping the female genitals onto the sensory portion of the brain found that nipple self-stimulation activates the genital sensory cortex, the same area as clitoral, vaginal, and cervical self-stimulation.
N4lN TIL Drug-sniffing dogs are wrong more than 50% of the time
Rxk9 TIL there is the machine which consists of twelve pairs of worms and gears. The input gear makes 4 revolutions in a minute and the output gear thus makes 1 revolution in 2.3 trillion years and is embedded in a block of solid concrete. This machine represents time frames astrophysicist deal with.