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TIL Qatar has the highest human sex ratio between 25-54 years old, with 4.91 males per female

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4Xe4X TIL of a woman known as Patient S.M, who has no amygdala, which is the part of the brain responsible for fear. As a result she is unable to feel fear or read negative social cues, and doesn't understand personal space. The only time she ever felt fear is when a test was held replicating suffocation.
16Bp7 TIL that BMW was founded by a son of the inventor of the four-stroke gasoline engine Nicolaus Otto
GYGV7 TIL a Russian eagle named "Min" & 3 other eagles being tracked by scientists unexpectedly flew into Iran/Pakistan; the birds racked up so many out-of-network data roaming charges on SMS text transmitters that scientists had to take out a loan & ask for help on social media to pay off the phone bill.
e0w0g TIL cardinal birds are romantic; they mate for life, travel together, sing before nesting, and during courtship, the male feeds seed to the female beak-to-beak.
w1RJ TIL Creationists’ favourite anti-evolutionist challenge to the existence of transitional fossils used to be the lack of transitional forms in the evolution of the whales; until those forms were found.