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TIL that in Southern Engand in the early 1970s, 30 percent of students in a class discovered their dads weren't their biological fathers through a science project

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yVo7J TIL American gas prices are less than half of Danish gas prices
bOG4 TIL that between 1911-12, George Murray Levick observed a breeding cycle of Adelie Penguins on Cape Adare. He found them to be very depraved, practicing homosexuality, necrophilia, and abuse. He suppressed the study, which was only published last year, because he found it “too shocking”.
9YGr TIL The amygdala is a part of the brain that controls fear. Remove it and you lose any sense of fear.
9wOmM TIL that there are more trees on Earth than there are stars in the Milky Way. In fact, there are around 422 trees per person on earth.
Bgv0b TIL in 1990, a Domino's Pizza owner in Washington DC noticed a record-breaking number of pizza orders from the Pentagon leading up to the Invasion of Kuwait. Similar increases happened leading up the Panama Invasion and Grenada Invasion; the intelligence leakage became known as The Pizza Meter