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TIL that blind people smile even tho they have never seen anybody else smile. Smiling is due to our human genes and not the learning in our youth

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Ee70 TIL that it is illegal to only own one guinea pig in Switzerland … you must own a partner
rRV4M TIL Teddy Roosevelt was a feminist. A man who is an icon of modern masculinity, championed women's rights. In one essay he said “Viewed purely in the abstract, I think there can be no question that women should have equal rights with men.… " and was large supporter of the women's suffrage movement
6l9X TIL: all female placental mammals menstruate, but only female humans, bats, elephant shrews and some primate species bleed, which is called overt menstruation. Other mammals completely reabsorb the endometrium in what is known as covert or ‘true’ menstruation.
awylA TIL at the time of his fatal heart attack rapper Big Pun weighed 698 lbs (317 kg). About 10 years earlier he weighed around 180 lbs (~80 kg).
5VX1R TIL there's an international treaty preventing the use of Environmental Modification Techniques or "Weather Warfare".