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TIL there are three things that your brain cannot naturally ignore: food, attractive people, and danger.

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l7nMA TIL pubic lice are now an endangered species
4XgLb TIL that the egg cells we all started as originally formed in our grandmother, not our mother. Basically, we all started out as the deepest layer of a multi-generational turducken.
GQNE TIL the FBI spend years trying to decipher two notes left by a murder victim who couldn’t write.
pYMM8 TIL that the Northern treeshrew is the only mammal known to willingly consume spicy foods other than humans. This is due to a natural resistance to capsaicin.
VBM44 TIL that the reason the middle finger is offensive is it was used as an explicit reference to the male genitalia. Greek playwright Aristophanes puns in his comedy The Clouds about dactylic (finger) rhythm, with a character gesturing first with his middle finger and subsequently with his crotch.