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TIL that over 95% of farm raised salmon are deaf

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jMBR TIL scientists have created a language called Lincos designed for communicating with alien civilizations, should the need ever arise.
0r0R TIL that the Taung Child - the first Australopithecus fossil ever discovered - was originally killed by a bird of prey after having its eyes gouged out ~2.8 million years ago
4Xe6g TIL in an experiment where subjects were told to allocate funds to other subjects, they would always favour members of their own group, even though they didn't know who the groupmembers were, had never met them, and had been arbitrarily put into their group.
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