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TIL about the functions of humans' foreskins

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v1QZj TIL Robert Clive, a British Governor and General in India had a pet tortoise named Adwaita. Clive died in 1774. Adwaita died in 2006, 232 years later at the age of c.255. She was born before the 7 Years War, the founding of the USA and the French Revolution.
X0PPD TIL If you live to age 70, your heart will have beat around 2.5 billion times
xVJQb TIL in 1918 at a Boy Scout medal ceremony, Teddy Roosevelt attempted to make a joke at Theodor Geisel’s expense by exclaiming “What’s this boy doing here?” but it backfired, causing the future Doctor Seuss to develop a lifelong fear of crowds.
nW9Vo TIl that in 1964 a Swedish journalist did an experiment where he had a chimpanzee named Peter make a series of pantings and then submitted them to an art show as by Pierre Brassau to see if critics could tell the difference between avant grande art and art by a chimp. Most critics fell for it
8an8 TIL people who listen to country music are more likely to get depression.