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TIL those maple seed "helicopters" are called samaras!

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j7kn TIL wild young female chimps care for sticks the same way girls play with dolls, something not seen in males. Also, captive male monkeys prefer to play with trucks, and females with dolls, suggesting there is something biological about the sexes that make us prefer toward different toys.
R5rw9 TIL that 2500 years ago, an explorer named Hanno found a tribe of ‘hairy and savage’ people. He captured three women, but they were so ferocious that he had them killed and skinned. It’s speculated that he actually discovered gorillas. Gorillas were named after his name for the tribe.
5LoP TIL Coyote attacks are on the rise in the U.S. as they are losing their fear of humans, and that most of these attacks are not coyotes but instead a hybrid called “Coywolves”
b94Ma Til cavemen hardly existed as very few Stone Age people inhabited caves. Most being nomadic hunter-gatherer tribes living in a variety of temporary structures, such as tents and wooden huts. Caves just have the best preserved
4bQb TIL Male ferrets can’t be separated from the female after penetration until they decide to do so, due to their hooked penis. Females will die in heat if they go too long without sex.