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TIL Women drank lead & mercury for Blrth Control

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Yp1gr TIL there's a predator in Madagascar that looks like a feline, behaves like a feline, has vertical pupils, retractable claws, whiskers etc, but it's actually a mongoose. There are no felines in Madagascar, so mongooses evolved into feline-like animals to fulfill their role in the food chain.
66aw TIL that separating bananas slows down ripening process
D1QDv TIL the USSR was so massive it covered 1/6 of the world's land — about as big as North America
Brx6D TIL that anybody, dead or alive, travelling into France requires a passport. In 1974, The Egyptian government had to issue a passport to Pharaoh, Ramesses II to transport his body to France for restoration. Eerily, his body also received full military honours when it arrived at the Paris airport.
a80BM TIL Ayn Rand based her protagonists on kidnapper, murderer William Edward Hickman.