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TIL pubic hair tends to match eyebrow colour

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dklZ TIL a polar bear is going “insane” in an Argentinian zoo and is not scheduled for relocation, even after another polar bear has died months earlier due to an heat stroke
x6LVk TIL in the '40s theatrical producer John Reber promoted a plan to build two dams to change most of San Francisco Bay into two freshwater lakes. He got a lot of support, but the US Army Corps of Engineers built a giant working model of the bay to show how this plan was a terrible idea
1aGr TIL humans were almost certainly deep-sea fishing over 42,000 years ago.
Oo4B6 TIL that the Decretum by Burchard of Worms, (c. 950 –1025), recommends two years of penance on fast days for medieval women who have put live fish in their vaginas until the fish dies, then cooking it and feeding it to the object of their affection as a love spell.
4XGrX TIL that Steven Thrasher was awarded free cigarettes for life from Phillip Morris as part of a settlement following being shot by his supervisor in 1974 and had to sue when they tried to stop.