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TIL Newborns’ crying is influenced by native language. In a 2009 study, French infants were shown to cry with a “rising melody contour” while German infants cried with “falling contours”.

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QN0pd TIL that only two people survived a fall through a cumulonimbus cloud. One of the cases suffered severe frostbite and decompression injuries and was trapped in the cloud for more than 30 minutes.
x67Zo TIL about a fancy apartment in Paris that was abandoned in 1942. It became a time capsule that remained untouched until 2010.
gRj4 TIL that neutered lions lose their manes, since it’s apparently directly tied to testosterone production
4k0NX TIL Spotted salamander is the only known example of a 'photosynthetic' vertebrate.
7r71L TIL that since the 1980s, novelty Garfield phones have been washing up on the beaches of Brittany in France. It was only in 2019 that the source - a lost shipping container - was discovered