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TIL that 2013 United Nations survey found that 62% of men on Bougainville Island, part of the Solomon Islands archipelago, have at least once raped a woman or girl.

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Vp00 TIL The skeleton found by Tuco inside the wrong coffin at Sad Hill cemetery in the movie The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, was a real human skeleton. A deceased Spanish actress wrote in her will she wanted to act even after her death.
1Rpr TIL that Reddit named a whale Mister Splashy Pants via a Greenpeace contest. Greenpeace didn’t want that to be the name of the whale, but the publicity was too good to turn up.
Xv7P TIL octopi have 9 nine brains, one for each tentacle and a central one inside their head
a8YV0 TIL that the end of the Stone Age to the present represents only around 0.7% of human history.
Oo5Mg TIL that whales evolved from wolf sized land animals that roamed the planet around 50 million years ago.