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TIL: Only 1,280 breeding humans once roamed Earth, gene study shows

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69gxY TIL "The Rabbit Died" was once a common euphemism for a positive pregnancy test, when actually all rabbits died using such tests which involved injecting them with women's urine.
9YMnM TIL that camels and humans are the only non-aquatic mammals that do not eat their placenta.
l7OgA TIL about "call of the void" The feeling — which tends to be brief, entirely out of character and often involves thoughts of leaping from a high place or driving headfirst into an oncoming vehicle
grv5X TIL the world’s first newspaper horoscope happened because British newspapers ran out of stuff to talk about when Princess Margaret was born in 1930.
nWdro TIL that the Soviets used a 30 kt nuke to stop an out of control gas well fire