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TIL sloth sex takes only 5 seconds.

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m1lY TIL Scientists have been working on possibly cloning a Neanderthal questioning the risks of putting it into our environment and the workarounds.
wLLrM TIL that Diana Nyad, at the age of 64, became the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida. This was done unassisted.
VMbM0 TIL (initially from my textbook) that the Cheaper by the Dozen family was inspired by the Gilbreths. The mother Lilian (a psychologist), and the father Frank (an engineer) were famous for many other things besides the book one of their daughters wrote about the family.
R51Ll TIL a Boeing 727 cargo plane was stolen from Angola in 2003 and has never been found.
OoZGX TIL that due to tidal deceleration, every new day is longer than the last. Within 50,000 years, each day will be approx 1 second longer. Give it another 180 million years and we'll all have an extra hour every single day.