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TIL baby male monkeys prefer to play with trucks and baby female monkeys prefer to play with dolls, indicating a biological predisposition towards these gender stereotypes

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QVae TIL that in Japan, you are equally likely to die from being struck by lightning as you are from being shot by a gun.
9wJXr TIL that catfish can taste with every part of their body. They have more than 100,000 taste buds on the surface of their bodies, ­making them virtual swimming tongues.
9wQj6 TIL Reynolds Wrap was founded in 1919 to make foil wrappers for the new concept of packs of cigarettes (Camel, 1913) of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., who later expanded to include Winston, Salem, Newport, Pall Mall. The Founder of Reynolds Wrap was the nephew of R.J. Reynolds, Richard Reynolds.
KYvv4 TIL that 2 MK 45 nuclear torpedos, each with a W34 11 kiloton nuclear warhead, are on the ocean floor with the remains of the USS Scorpion nuclear-powered submarine, which sank in 1968.
nWe7B TIL the Sun is not a mass of incandescent Gas, it’s a miasma of incandescent Plasma