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Today I learned that female trout fake orgasms to make male trout prematurely ejaculate so the females can continue their search for a more preferred coupling

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4XpxJ TIL of the horseshoe theory, in which the far right and the far left in fact closely resemble one another (tendency to support authoritarian governments, etc), such that the political continuum resembles a horseshoe rather than a linear line.
xVODw TIL in 2019 the US government recovered over $3 Billion using the False Claims Act, generally from whistleblower reports.
X0w9R TIL A teen from Manchester used several fake online personas to convince his best friend to murder him, after surviving the attack, he became the first person in UK history charged with inciting his own murder
wovMJ TIL Christopher Columbus made significant errors in estimating the distance to Asia. If the Americas didn't exist, then he'd have ran out of food and died long before reaching Japan.
DQPxD TIL certain frogs, such as the Cape rain frog, don't have a tadpole stage and instead hatch from eggs directly into froglets.