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TIL Ethiopian Baboons are starting to domesticate wolves
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WkaoB
TIL Naukan is a deserted Yupik village in Russia, once the easternmost settlement in the Eurasian continent. The eviction of the 400 indigenous inhabitants took place in 1954 with the objective of a possible military confrontation with the United States
BrQpy
TIL pinworms live in the gut but their eggs have to be eaten and hatch in the lower intestine. So at night they peek out the anus, causing people to itch themselves while sleeping, later transferring them to the mouth. 1/2 the world population has had them.
78nXM
TIL Carrie Fisher's ashes were buried in urn shaped like a Prozac pill.
OGYR1
TIL of the Superman memory crystal, a nanostructured glass used for permanently recording digital data. It can store up to 360 terabytes worth of data for billions of years. It is so durable that even at 189 °C (372 °F), its decay time is comparable to the age of the Universe (13.8×10^9 years).
x6LOk
TIL that in 1923 boxer Jack Dempsey was knocked out of the ring and hit his head on a typewriter by opponent Luis Firpo, but would still go on to win the bout by KO.