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TIL 30% of humans are infected by the parasite toxoplasmosis. Which makes people more likely to engage in unconventional sexual practices. For example, bondage.

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a8wJ0 TIL that when naturalist Robert Plot discovered the first dinosaur fossils in 1677, he believed they belonged to giant humans that roamed the earth years ago. It wasn’t until 1824 when Oxford professor William Buckland concluded that the fossils belonged to an extinct lizard, the “Megalosaurus.”
oBWKY TIL Skyfall Lodge, the Scottish ancestral home of James Bond which features heavily in the movie Skyfall, was just a wooden framed set located on a UK Mininstry of Defence site in Surrey, England.
9AJp TIL that, besides Antarctica, there is a place on earth that is not claimed by any country
78bpx TIL that the most popular YouTube video is Baby Shark with 15.6B views, resulting in the video receiving an estimated $37M+ in ad revenue. Thus making Baby Shark more successful than films such as Disaster Movie (2008) and Superman IV (1987).
16xb4 TIL a study published in 2017 found that children who were breastfed for two years or longer had a 2.4 times higher risk of having severe cavities, compared to kids who were breastfed for less than a year.