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TIL: Dominant female cotton-top tamarin monkeys use pheromones to stop subordinate females from breeding. The pheremones suppress sexual behavior and delay puberty. In the event that more than one female in a group becomes pregnant, only one of the pregnancies will survive.

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EQYP TIL a private company dumped 100 tonnes of iron sulphate off the coast of Canada to promote the growing of plankton capable of absorbing carbon-dioxide from the air. It is the world’s most significant geoengineering project to date.
Y7k7x TIL about a set of reports known as 'The Family Jewels' detailing illegal activities conducted by the the CIA from 1959 to 1973 including funding of behavior modification research on unwitting US citizens, including unscientific, non-consensual human experiments.
xVR6b TIL that Bretagne, the last living search and rescue dog who assisted after the 9/11 attacks, was saluted by firefighters as she was being taken into the vet's office to be euthanized due to kidney failure.
4Xoxo TIL the UK gameshow 'Mastermind' is inspired by Gestapo interrogations
16nVW TIL that the 3rd largest coral reef in the world is in Biscayne National Park, which is unique for being 95% underwater.