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TIL that alleles have a big impact on your sexuality

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loo47 TIL Studies show atheists are more intelligent than religious people
XE178 TIL there's a biblical theory that the Adam and Eve narrative didn't involve Adam losing a rib but a Baculum (penis bone). Humans are the only Primate without one. Alternative scholars suggest that the use of the word rib was meant to be a euphemism.
nWnWo TIL there was a short-lived country in Africa named the Republic of Maryland, settled by freed slaves from the US state of Maryland. Their governor was named John Brown (different one) and then they got annexed by Liberia.
4kmd5 TIL a chicken once lived for 18 months without a head
5aXB TIL of a theory that says society has 4 stages of approx 20 yrs: High (strong institutions; low individualism), Awakening (strong activism & art), Unraveling (distrusted institutions; strong individualism), and Crisis (destroy institutions for national survival). We’re in the Crisis stage.