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TIL that males may have evolved facial features specifically designed to take a punch. Researchers found that facial bones commonly broken during a fight grew more resilient as time progressed and were the same bones that showed the most divergence between males and females.

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LkMa0 TIL Scientists put slime mold onto a model of a map of Tokyo, with food representing urban centers. After a day, it created a network almost identical to Tokyo’s actual rail network. Human designers created that network to be as efficient as possible; slime mold did the same, but without a brain
5Yk4D TIL that before raised scaffolds were used for hangings, a condemned person’s relatives could pull on their legs in the hope of occasioning a quicker death.
Bryyy TIL about the Parsley Massacre, in which Dominican soldiers identified and killed thousands of Haitian migrants based on their pronunciation of the Spanish word for parsley.
ElR7 TIL there are fewer than 33,000 Venus flytraps living in the wild, and they’re all in North Carolina.
VBR58 TIL that stock market operators are nothing but the stock exchanges, brokerage firms and big financial institutions which makes retail investors trap