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TIL Female Koalas engage heavily in lesbian sex

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AOgw TIL in 2001, the heir to the Nepalese throne killed the entire royal family before turning the gun on himself.
KO6na TIL Shanidar 1 was a Neanderthal fossil that, even though he developed several severe disabilities while he was alive, lived to be 35-45 years old because his social group fed and cared for him.
xg95 TIL on 5 March 1945, a Gurkha soldier in the British army calmly stood up in open sight and killed a sniper pinning down his company before going on to clear 5 enemy bunkers, single-handedly, all whilst under heavy fire.
R1o9 TIL Less than 5% of the population has a biological disdain for all music, it is called musical anhedonia.
mxMNv TIL that beluga whales can mimic human speech, and have caused divers to inadvertently surface due to them mimicing commands to surface