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TIL IKEA Let Loose a Herd of 100 Cats Into Store to “See What Happens”

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5gV9 TIL that females may be attracted towards promiscuous males because that would increase her sons’ future breeding successes, a phenomenon known as the Sexy Son Hypothesis.
JY96m TIL of the ringed caecilian. An amphibian whose nestlings use teeth to feed on their mothers outer skin.
0wb0A TIL that during the Peloponnesian war the entire island of Delos was purged of all dead bodies as a form of 'purification' by the city-state of Athens, as well as prohibiting everybody from dying and giving birth. (5 BC)
wo6M6 TIL bees will leave the hive with all their honey (abscond) if they (for various reasons) feel uncomfortable with their living situation, even if it means certain death from being exposed to the elements.
OoQQ7 TIL The ability to read mispelled words is not based only on the first and last letter of the word, but also on the overall context and many other psycholinguistic factors. The original meme that made this popular actually used very specific words to show the effect, but it fails for other words.