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TIL “Orang” in Orangutan does not refer to the color orange, but rather the Indonesian word for “person”.

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69Br7 TIL that during the 1960-70s, the Danish government had doctors fit intrauterine devices (IUDs) into thousands of Greenlandic Inuit girls and women, without their knowledge or consent, as part of a program to control the indigenous birth rate in Greenland
X0wWP TIL: Levi’s uses a blank tab on 10% of its products to protect its trademark of the tab shape.
neEdd TIL some plants that relied on extinct animals to disperse their seeds now rely on rodents, who will bury them. The seeds travel further when other rodents steal them, and bury them again, and again, and again, etc.
9YGrX TIL Animals in Japan can only stay at the shelter for 5 days before being put to rest if no one has adopted them.
gMw7D TIL that historically, the first thing to break down in times of widespread calamity is the exchange of food between rural and urban areas, leading inevitably to food shortages.