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TIL an alligator's brain weighs between eight and nine grams and takes up only 1/2 a teaspoon.

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g9m4 TIL China does not have it’s own army. The ‘Chinese army’ is actually the military arm of the Communist Party.
VBL48 TIL that the inclusion of women in clinical research did not become law until 1993.
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