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TIL that it can take up to 80 years for this fish to reproduce for the first time

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gKp7 TIL Geneticists have figured out the time that evolving humans lost their primate body hair by using mitochondrial DNA to calculate the date that head lice evolution diverged from that of public lice.
a8Q0b TIL that the Slavery Abolition Act 1833, the law abolishing slavery in the United Kingdom, was repealed in 1998 due to a restructuring of English law.
m1vdo TIL that the last person executed by the Spanish Inquisition was Cayetano Ripoll, who was hanged in 1826 for teaching deist principles
wOR8 TIL that in 2017, the US will experience its first total solar eclipse since 1979, and that people from several countries are already trying to make hotel reservations―years in advance!
woL1P TIL that during the Vietnam war, soldiers built "gun trucks" on their own to defend supply convoys. These 5-ton behemoths were heavily armored, DEADLY (.50 cal machine guns and mini guns!) and even had names like Brutus, Eve of Destruction, King Kong, Ace of Spades, and The Untouchable.