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TIL that a woman named Bridget Cleary was murdered because her husband believed her to be replaced by a faerie .

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5gV9 TIL that females may be attracted towards promiscuous males because that would increase her sons’ future breeding successes, a phenomenon known as the Sexy Son Hypothesis.
QJZgM TIL in 2012 an Air Canada flight was grounded for four hours because a passenger’s cat got out of its carrier and hid in the cockpit.
neYko TIL the USSR considered Darwinian evolution a lie created by "bourgeois capitalism", and instead opted for Lamarckian evolution for political reasons. The failure of Soviet biologists to acknowledge natural selection resulted in a series of crop failures and food shortages.
OQ8X TIL that the only purpose shark fin serves in shark fin soup is to provide texture. All the flavor comes from the other ingredients
Mev6K TIL: The message to new moms? Leave dad alone with baby. “Studies have actually shown that children who get more attention from their fathers in their first five years of life, actually have better reading scores in school”