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TIL that there are no remaining male mourning geckos and so to reproduce, females engage in foreplay like behaviour with each other and then produce eggs asexually.

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6ExaQ TIL framers of the US Constitution including Ben Franklin and James Madison were inspired by the 117-article constitution of the six-nation Iroquois Confederacy created before European contact. The law was preserved orally and written in wampum symbols that conveyed meaning.
ABX7 TIL that astrophysicists have discovered a faraway object that’s hotter than any contemporary theory can explain, a discovery that might require scientists rewriting galaxy operation manuals for years to come.
RKn1 TIL during the Cold War the CIA spent $3.8B to construct a ship with a 16,000ft underwater claw arm in order to retrieve a sunken Soviet nuclear submarine.
lAk5 TIL of Elektro the robot. Built in 1937 to resemble the typical American male he could look, listen, speak, move independently and, of course, smoke cigarettes.
Y7g1G TIL that even though elephants have 10 times more body cells than humans, they’re still less likely to get cancer.