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TIL only humans have pubic hair

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gMYoX TIL that shark teeth and tastebuds develop from the same stem cells in an embryonic shark’s mouth, and hence hundreds of millions of years ago teeth may have first evolved from tastebuds
oBNrR TIL: In the '60s a researcher put 3 men who believed themselves to be Jesus in a support group together, and all three ended up believing the others were wrong and they were still Jesus and the others were robots after much arguing over their divinity
LORm TIL The US military has a secret, nearly silent type of velcro which reduces the ripping noise by over 95%
KOOaG Short answer: Not really.
N7gL6 Researchers in Sweden have uncovered evidence of a behaviour never seen before in ancient hunter-gatherers: the mounting of decapitated heads onto stakes. The grim discovery challenges our understanding of European Mesolithic culture and how these early humans handled their dead.