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TIL: As human mammals we are phylogenetically classified as Deuterostomes, meaning that we evolved as embryos from our anus, outwards. The first step in Blastocyst evolution is Gastrulation; to create our own digestive system from anus to mouth.

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xyeB TIL of the boomslang snake in Africa. It’s venom can cause the victim to bleed to death from every orifice.
DQ4eY TIL The mathematician William Playfair (noted for inventing the line, area, bar, and pie charts) was also a spy. The Scottish Playfair counterfeited and distributed false assignats which drove down their value and put France into an economic crisis by 1795.
j6MYj TIL In 2000,an American named Jupiter was in Kinsale, Ireland, bought all the lobsters destined for someone's main course, to free them back into the sea. "Aileen was taking the lobsters out and he was saying to her, `Be gentle, be gentle - don't hurt them.' "
lXO1 TIL that in the 1940’s, 300 men, a measuring tape, a line on the floor and a movie camera were used to discover that the distance record for semen ejaculation is just shy of 8 feet (15:15).
gMb8D TIL scattered around Roopkund Lake in the Indian Himalaya are the bones of about 800 people who seemingly died in a single unkown event in 800 AD. Newer studies reveal that some of the bones belong to another group of people who also died in a single event. Except a thousand years after the others.