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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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8nW8 TIL On Sept 11, 1997, a man claiming to be an ex-Area 51 employee frantically called into a radio station. During the call, the radio station suffered a satellite failure.
Jxnm TIL the Queen’s coronation dress had emblems of an English Tudor rose, a Scots thistle, a Welsh leek, an Irish shamrock, an Australian wattle, a Canadian maple leaf, a New Zealand fern, South Africa’s protea, an Indian pearly lotus, an Ceylonese opalescent lotus and Pakistan’s wheat, cotton and jute
kAEg TIL in Arizona, the Superstition Mountains is the home of the Apache Thunder God who cursed the land by killing anyone who travels the mountain trying to find his gold. Deaths began as early as the Spanish explorers in the 1500’s and up to this day. Some of the corpses were found decapitated.
KZAQ TIL Whenever Hugh Hefner’s daughter, Christie, came to visit the Playboy Mansion as a teenager, “the mansion was cleaned up with all the kinky stuff put away” in an effort to keep her from knowing what was going on. She later became president of the company.
Ookja TIL experiments found that the colors of light reflected on crops while growing can affect their products: tomatoes grown over red mulch had 20% higher yield, carrots grown over yellow mulch had higher concentrations of beta carotene, "far-red" light increased the lengths of cotton fibers, and more.