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TIL that psychopaths are immune to contagious yawning due to their lack of empathy, which is a core psychological factor that leads to catching yawns.

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d8rLj TIL that hundreds of African-Americans in the Selma to Montgomery marches wore yarmulkes after learning that Jews wear them in the presence of God, believing that God was present in their march for freedom.
1aDn8 TIL that bacteria have sexual intercourse
yQVbl Let’s ask Betsy Dresser, the senior vice president of research at the Audubon Center for Research of Endangered Species in New Orleans, who has raised several litters of small African wildcat clones. “Oh yes, the clones are very much wild animals with wild instincts,” she says. “They bite and scratch. You can’t handle them without gloves and nets.”
gMPW7 TIL that there is no blue pigmentation in blue eyes. The eyes appear blue as a result of Rayleigh scattering, the same process that makes the sky appear blue.
pZJA TIL Dennis Rodman Was Pretty Much Kicked Out of N. Korea for Being Way Too Drunk