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TIL that because of being descendants of Alexander Pushkin, who himself was a descendant of Abram Petrovich Gannibal, several members of British aristocracy would have African ancestry.

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v1nxD TIL that axoltols can regrow limbs, tails, hearts, eyes, parts of the brain, and even the central nervous system.
XEg9j TIL the word “you” used be only (the 2nd person) plural (“thou” was singular), then it changed to only singular, and today it’s both singular and plural
Amgw TIL: “Generational Curses” may be a real thing. There was a study where mice were given a small shock to the foot at the same time as the smell of acetophenone. After 10 days, they mated. The children mice inherited a fear of the odor even though they had never been exposed to it before.
WMOA TIL that a preying mantis can kill a hummingbird by stabbing its leg through the bird’s chest.
Lp9m TIL in 2007 a court awarded the rights to OJ Simpson’s “If I Did It” book to the Goldman family. It was renamed “If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer”, with the “If” reduced in size to make it appear that the title was “I Did It”