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TIL red lipstick has bugs in it

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E18pw TIL 33% of millennials buy their first house to give their dog more space, compared to just 19% for a new baby.
PYP8G TIL that none of the architecture on Euro banknotes is real, as the EU prohibited displaying any national monuments, so to not give greater prominence to one country over another. Hence, for the €5 note, a computer was used to scan multiple European bridges and combine them into one neutral design.
kO8e1 TIL in the year 2000 a new type of ant was found in the Amazon. It was so unlike anything previously recorded that it was not only recognized as a new species, it also became the sole member of a new genus, AND subfamily.
kJ1V7 TIL that, similarly to the soapy cilantro taste gene, some people have a genetic predisposition that prevents them from smelling “asparagus urine.”
rNdlw TIL, whales can make a poonado up to 100 feet wide to hide themselves