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TIL that squirrels behave kindly and would adopt orphans if they notice that a relative does not come back to them

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D18Np TIL that there is an iland whose administration alternates between France(1 August – 31 January) and Spain(1 February – 31 July) every 6 month. This is the only example in contemporary international relations of alternating sovereignty over the same territory.
RXX1 TIL similar to the “Amber Alert” program, most states also have a missing persons recovery program called “Silver Alert”, which is designed to help find missing senior citizens with Alzheimer’s disease, dementia or other mental disabilities.
6Yl7 TIL: a 2012 study showed that men who treat women the same as they treat other men, are seen as overwhelmingly sexist by both men and women.
pLe TIL that since 1993, more than 700 girls and women have been raped, tortured, mutilated, and murdered in the Northern Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez, which has the highest female murder rate per capita of any city in Mexico or the US. It’s being called “femicide”.
e00nn TIL of the Ayam Cemani. A rare chicken breed with a gene that causes hyperpigmentation giving the chicken entirely black feathers, flesh, organs, and even bones.