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TIL: In 2019, historians analyzed portraits of Spanish Habsburgs, and discovered a correlation between the prominence of a person's Habsburg Jaw and his degree of inbreeding

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QJQrM TIL that all plants of the same stock of bamboo will bloom at the same time, and then die, no matter where they are in the world. Usually once every hundred years or so.
VBk98 TIL Princeton University once did a study in which scientists found that voters frequently pick the candidates with more mature looks over those with babyfaces. The two pictures used were of Russ Feingold and Tim Michels, the main candidates in the 2004 U.S. Senate race in Wisconsin.
E1LVd TIL that electronic television was first successfully demonstrated in San Francisco on September 7, 1927. The system was designed by Philo Taylor Farnsworth, a 21-year-old inventor who had lived in a house without electricity until he was 14.
78NWp TIL that in February 2025 a group of 8 beavers constructed a dam in the exact location that the Czech government had planned to build one. The initial project had been in the planning stage since 2018 and would have cost over $1.2 million.
97PG TIL white settlers in Mendocino County, California engaged in an “ethnic cleansing genocide” from 1856-1860 that wiped out 80% of the local Native American population.