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TIL when an anteater yawns they stick their tongue out

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R5bOl TIL that human beings share around 20 percent of their genes with a banana. These genes' functions are most likely basic housekeeping proteins involved in metabolic processes that are necessary for most, if not all, eukaryotic life (who have cells with a nucleus and other membrane-bound organelles).
M7Xaa TIL there's a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Alberta, Canada called "Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump." It's where the aboriginal people used to chase buffalo off a precipice and then carve up their remains at their camps below.
0dy7j TIL - the family that couldn't sleep, a family in Venice, Italy where for over 200 years many of the family members died suffering from fatal insomnia.
epdeL TIL that until recently, circus elephants were brought into Manhattan on foot through the Midtown Tunnel.
Y7J8W TIL a 2005 Harris Interactive poll conducted over the phone asked U.S. adults if they always washed their hands after various situations. 91% said they always washed their hands after using public restrooms but when observers went to U.S. public restrooms they found only 83% of the people there did.