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TIL that nearly half of Twitter accounts pushing to reopen America are bots

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N7JyE TIL: Given their lack of empathy, psychopaths are not susceptible to contagious yawning, according to a study conducted in 2015 at Baylor University
8eNL8 TIL the Vatican City is the smallest country in the world with a population of 764 people
OoBnR TIL Queen Elizabeth II is the only living head of state to have served in World War II
R5n9j TIL that +/- 42k years ago, the “Adam’s Event”, a reversal of Earth’s magnetic poles, may have led to the extinction of mega fauna, Neanderthals, and forced humans into caves as the earth experienced intense periods of cosmic radiation, solar winds, electrical storms, and drastic climate change.
9YBjG TIL Mongols have an ice fishing technique at Changan Lake that dates back over 2,000 years and is done in temperatures as low as -22C to -30C.