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TIL: The removal of lead from gasoline correlated to a 56% drop in violent crime in the US and South Africa

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BPay TIL A zoo in Japan once spent four years trying to mate a pair of hyenas before realizing they were both males, due to how similar a female pseudo penis is to a real one.
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