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TIL morality predates religions and can be seen in primitive animals living today.

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p14 TIL in Afghanistan there are girls who dress and live as boys (going to school, etc.) until marrying age, then get treated fully as girls.
aQPJ TIL that in Spain employees get 14 monthly paychecks a year (a double pay in Christmas and summer)
Br9mx TIL of Nebraska Man, a purported ape species found in Nebraska based on a set of teeth. Turns out the teeth actually belonged to a peccary and were just heavily weathered.
p8EoN TIL that there is a species of velvet spider where the mothers liquefy their internal organs to regurgitate for their spiderlings to eat. Once the mother is no longer able to regurgitate, the young eat her.
ZNKD TIL the first recorded name in history wasn’t that of a conquerer or prophet. It was of an accountant named Kushim.