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TIL few species are known to go through menopause, with humans and chimpanzees being the only documented primates. Scientists aren't sure why.

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YvPW TIL there is a volcano in Arizona that bears the name “Shit Pot Crater,” so named because it resembles a “toilet catastrophe.”
wolxJ TIL crinoid fossils (a relative of starfish) were found in the rock of the summit pyramid of Everest in 1924, the first proof the mountaintop is marine limestone formed on the ocean bed.
Bemx TIL: The richest 62 people in the world, have more money than the poorest 50% of the global population (3.562 billion people), combined.
yQ1ra TIL Of Nicholas Winton who was known for organizing the rescue of 669 Czech children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia during the 9 months before war broke out in 1939.
OvaR TIL of the Burkitshi - nomadic hunters of Mongolia. They capture a golden eagle at the age of four, and train it to become a hunting partner. The Burkitshi live and sleep with the eagle for ten years, and then it is released back into the wilderness before death.