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TIL Women used to bald just like men but that feature died out due to reproductive selection in prehistoric society.

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nWKD7 TIL that under New York City, on the lower concourse of Grand Central Station, there’s a windowless, 440-seat oyster and seafood bar that has been serving customers since the terminal’s opening in 1913. Except for brief closures for a fire in 1997 and COVID-19 it has operated continuously.
b9EDZ TIL the United States has no Official Language
grRAX TIL that Project Pluto, a Cold War US program, designed a nuclear-powered cruise missile with unlimited range that would drop multiple hydrogen bombs while continuously spewing deadly radiation along its flight path essentially a flying doomsday machine.
8aLGa TIL during Operation Desert Storm in Kuwait, 1991: a french Jaguars unit made a low-pass raid over Al-Jabr in the middle of Iraqi stronghold anti-aircraft fire, one pilot took a bullet on his head, 2 others were hit with reactor on fire, and all came back safe to the base.
X4KD TIL That some 15 million years ago, there was a Koala species that was 20 times the size of the present day Koala.