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TIL about Pleistocene Park in Siberia where scientists are trying to recreate the ecosystem of the last glacial period (a long time ago)

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9BjD TIL in 2014, a Stanford study found that walking boosts creative inspiration. The study examined creativity levels of people while they walked versus while they sat. A person’s creative output increased on average 60% when walking – regardless of how they walked (eg, outside or on a treadmill).
M77gm TIL of the Great Wall of Vaginas. Women from all over the world volunteered to have their genitalia set in plaster and displayed anonymously. From the Author, It is not about pornography and it is not about art or titillation but to make the sexual nonsexual and the amazement of human variety.
7rXdP TIL that Roman soldiers (that survived battle) actually had longer lives than the average Roman citizen due to the implementation of medical units in their legions.
v1n0r TIL about African-American boxer Joe Louis and Nazi boxer Max Schmeling. The two fought each other for the World Heavyweight Championship twice in the 1930s and went on to fight in WW2. They later become close friends.
VMeBk TIL Thomas Jefferson sent a giant moose carcass to Paris to prove that America’s animals were bigger than Europe’s