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TIL Mallory is traditionally a surname, not a given name. Also, it didn't start to be used for girls until 1982, when the character of Mallory Keaton appeared on Family Ties.

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Qao9 TIL left-spiraling snails are generally as rare as left handed humans, especially because left and right spiraled snails can’t mate together easily, but in Japan snakes gobble up righties easily but can’t bite into the lefties, so there are way more lefties.
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