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TIL that mothers are more likely to abuse their children.

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R5MA4 TIL: Bees can turn any worker bee egg into a new queen by feeding it a special diet. If the current queen dies or isn’t doing her job the hive can literally just make a new queen to replace her.
4dQJ TIL Yawning is not contagious for children with Autism due to the inattention to facial cues rather than lack of empathy.
d8go9 TIL oppurtunity rover survived for 15 while NASA expected it to last only for 3 months. Her last message was "my battery is low and its getting dark"
Gmy1 TIL of a man named Chen Si who since 2004 has devoted his free time to patrolling the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge, the most popular suicide site in the world, and has saved more than 300 people from jumping
99nD TIL that after Kurt Cobain dropped out of high school, he got a job as a janitor, at the very same high school that he dropped out of.