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TIL almost 1/3 of Canadians under 34 still live at home

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kONa7 TIL Giant Panda's have extremely tiny babies, only 1/900th the size of an adult Panda. In the wild, if the mother has twins, she will usually abandon the weaker baby because she can only raise one at a time. In captivity, staff will rotate the babies between the mother and incubator every few hours.
WGjA TIL of the legend that Athens’ first female physician dressed as a man to help women during childbirth. Male physicians accused her of seducing the women, leading to her appearing in court, where she revealed herself as a female and Athenian law was changed to allow female physicians.
4Xw5a TIL Abraham Lincoln was brought secretly into Washington D.C. for his inauguration due to an assassination conspiracy in Baltimore.
4X7GJ TIL The Tender Years Doctrine (generally regarded as the age of four and under), presumed in a divorce that the mother should have custody of the child. The law remained in place until the late 20th Century.
d8nLj TIL that Greek art strongly influenced Buddhist art following Alexander's conquests across the Middle East. Statues of Buddha did not exist before this, and Greco-Buddhism reached as far as Japan, where the wind God Fujin is still closely modeled after depictions the Greek wind God Boreas.