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Today I learned that the only other animal species that generally prefers to have sex in private is a bird called the Arabian Babbler

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78gLM TIL about The Horseman's Word, a secret society of British horse owners who claimed to practise secret invocations that could give them magical control over horses and women. Initiates would brandish knotted horse-hair and read passages from the Bible backwards before "shaking hands with the devil"
b9xYp TIL that most of the Arabian Peninsula had converted to Islam within 15 years of when Muhammad first started preaching publicly
D1vxY TIL that through his mother, Abraham Lincoln is related to Tom Hanks, George Clooney, and Camille Cosby
yV7xp TIL The MEE6 bot from Discord is a Rick and Morty reference. I never watched Rick and Morty, so I had no idea.
mpMp TIL that “Horseback riding carries a higher injury rate than motorcycle riding.”