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TIL Andrew Carnegie offered the Filipino people $20 million to buy their independence from the US, but nothing came of the offer

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EPXo TIL Australia is the only country to have served along side the United States in every military conflict since WW2.
x6KJ5 TIL that the the world's largest desert is not the Sahara; it's actually Antarctica, as deserts are defined by their low precipitation, not just sand dunes.
VBn7m TIL that the male redback spider will assist his partner during sexual cannibalism by somersaulting toward her mouthparts. Because this allows him to mate only once, some find a juvenile female -- too young to eat him -- and break her exoskeleton to deliver his sperm for her to use when mature.
OoM5e TIL that under ancient Jewish law, unanimous conviction was considered as too good to be correct. The absence of dissenting opinions among the judges was seen a proof that the suspect is very probably innocent
X0PQP Today I learned that epigenetics can be used to predict sex across mammals at close to 100% accuracy. A notable exception are marmosets, and methods that work on other mammals can only predict marmoset sex accurately 66% of the time.