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TIL - Our Human Ancestors Very Nearly Went Extinct 900,000 Years Ago

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VBQA0 TIL Sonja Farsi and Annie Dookhan, two Massachusetts lab technicians were responsible for handing pver 70,000 cases and around 15,000 false convictions by tampering with and intentionally falsifying drug evidence
E1wO0 TIL that before he was killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand supported idea of reforming his empire into Triple monarchy by giving Slavic peoples equal representation in the empire
oB8AW TIL that by petting your bird on its back, tail or under the wings, you might induce such hormonal and behavioral responses that the bird sees you as a reproductive partner, and that can lead it to be sexually frustrated, resulting in harmful behavior towards you and the bird itself.
groE8 TIL We often turn the radio down or off when looking for an address to allow the brain to shift its focus to a critical task, finding the desired location.
yVlaJ TIL In 2015, a long-forgotten tape in the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library containing a private conversation with Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney in 1985 was discovered. It revealed a friendly moment between Reagan and Mulroney