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TIL: In 2019 A Well Preserved Pleistocene Wolf Head and a Frozen Cave Lion Cub were Found by a Team in Siberia

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d81KZ TIL Carl Linneaus once proposed a clock made from different breeds of flowers, based when they opened and closed throughout the day.
lgJN TIL that because left-handed people have an advantage in hand-to-hand combat, the rate of left-handed people is much higher in violent societies than peaceful societies
1Dy8 TIL that a few hundred years back, women in Turkey could legally divorce their husbands if he didn’t provide them with enough coffee.
WljL TIL that Americans use and discard 500 million straws a day, an amount that would fill 125 school buses.
oaDr TIL that the three highest paid employees of the Department of Defense are Football coaches for the Military, Navy, and Air Force Academies, with one making $1.6mil in 2012.