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TIL doves and pigeons are the same thing

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Pjgw TIL young childrens’ negative response to vegetables is an evolved adaptation that reduces risk of exposure to plant toxins
JlQ1 TIL The Plantaris is a small muscle in your calf that is believed to be used by our ancestors to grip with their feet. It is so weak that it is considered functionally obsolete and arguments have been made that humans are evolving it out. It is absent in 7-10% of the population worldwide.
gMkk4 TIL Saturn's rings are estimated to only be 10-100 million years old. Saturn likely did not have rings when the dinosaurs were alive.
QNR16 TIL that The Lord of the Rings trilogy won 475 out of 800 film awards, making it the most awarded film series in cinema history.
X0Ox8 TIL that inventor Elisha Gray, who lost the patent for the telephone to Alexander Graham Bell, also invented the first fax machine, using telegraph lines to transmit handwriting and documents in 1887