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TIL that female bonobos rub their clitorises together every 2 hours on average

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69gwZ TIL 50% of the world population will have myopia by 2050, and in China already 80% of teenagers and young adults are afflicted. Myopia significantly increases the risk of blindness later on in life. They still don't quite now exactly what causes it.
xVOVB TIL Martin Luther King Jr. regretted his "I Have A Dream" speech after witnessing all the violence going on in Vietnam and the disdain the country had for Black people, he recanted his 1963 monologue, calling it "naive".
LkA7r TIL the Vatican has Astronomical Observatories in Italy and Arizona and were involved with a project to map the stars in the late 1890s
NXmGb TIL that medical cannibalism in Europe reached its peak in the 16th century, with the practice becoming widespread in Germany, France, Italy, and England. At that time, most "raw materials" for the practice came from mummies stolen from Egyptian tombs.
wlk6 TIL a homeless girl went to Harvard. She attended 12 schools in 12 years; lived out of garbage bags among pimps, prostitutes and drug dealers. She was accepted to more than 20 universities before choosing Harvard.