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TIL Short Man Syndrome is real

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Lkvkd TIL: When given colored construction paper, wasps build rainbow colored nests
o58o TIL in a dark room, it’s easier to see an object by not looking directly at it but rather next to it because of the distribution of cones and rods.
YpO0v TIL That professional chess players can burn up to 6,000 calories a day despite their limited movement thanks to elevated blood pressures during matches.
1arNP TIL Indigenous Australians are the most ancient continuous civilisation on Earth, a fact backed by the first extensive study of their DNA, which dates their origins to more than 50,000 years ago. Scientists traced their linage to the DNA of modern populations in Australia and Papua New Guinea.
a8dYb TIL Hockey pucks were once square