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TIL An ostrich's brain is smaller than its eyeball!

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gr1m8 TIL humans have smaller jaws and bigger brains than our primate forebears because of a mutation in the MYH16 gene. The jaw muscles are made smaller and weaker as a result of the gene mutation, which lessens the force applied to the skull, which can expand, letting the brain grow bigger.
Z8joB TIL it can take up to 2,700 liters of water to produce the cotton needed to make a single t-shirt.
GEWQ TIL that the documentary The Thin Blue Line ended up getting Randall Dale Adams out of the death penalty and freed from prison after 12 years of being wrongly imprisoned. Adams recieved no compensation from the State of Texas. He went on to advocate against the death penalty.
Y7ydd TIL that much like champagne, the term "haute couture" is strictly protected by France
v1PKj TIL bestiality is legal in Japan. Are they that scared of adjudicating the "it was the squid's fault" defense?