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TIL that mammals that live in urban areas have proportionally larger brains compared to those of the same species in rural areas.

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VB7XD TIL that Nobel Prize nominations aren't revealed for at least 50 years. If the nominee is still alive, their nomination is still kept secret.
6EOEw TIL of Roy Benavidez. Whilst deployed in Vietnam, he responded to a distress call and jumped out of a helicopter with a medical bag, armed with only a knife. After a 6-hour fight with the enemy battalion, he had a total of 37 separate bullet, bayonet, and shrapnel wounds. He saved at least 8 men.
yQdjX TIL that while ginseng is thought of as a traditional Chinese medicine, it is actually native to North America
YpJjx TIL that when humans domesticated wolves, we pretty much bred Williams Syndrome into dogs, which is characterized by "cognitive difficulties and a tendency to love everyone"
ep6DL TIL Earth has 7 Quasi-Satellites. Quasi-Satellites are like Satellites (Moon), but their orbits lie outside the planet's Hill sphere, a region in which it dominates the attraction of satellites.