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TIL Women may be more likely than men to be bisexual, or be primarily attracted to men with some same-sex attraction, because same-sex behavior allowed women to raise their children with other women.

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b6Zp0 TIL that in the Joan Miró Foundation, in Barcelona, you can see a functional mercury fountain created by Alexander Calder. It has to be kept in an airtight glass casing at all times because of the toxic fumes.
Ovye TIL Handwriting has been deemed a “useless skill” in Finland and will no longer be taught to children. Instead, typing will be taught.
REJa TIL that a spring in Wyoming named Intermittent Spring flows for 18 minutes, then abruptly stops flowing for another 18 minutes.
XekD TIL that Fountain Hughes lived through slavery, the Civil War, World War 1, World War 2, and the beginning of the Cold War.
WkAQ4 TIL in 1902 a man named Ludger Sylbaris survived a volcanic eruption that killed 30,000 people because he was drunk and arrested the night before. Held in a windowless cell he stopped the superheated shockwave from vaporizing the air inside by peeing on his clothes and stuffing them in the door slit