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TIL Evolution doesn’t “plan” to improve an organism’s fitness to survive; it is simply a goalless process where random mutations can aid, hinder or have no effect on an organism’s ability to survive and reproduce

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Zpv6o TIL that, during a battle in the French and Indian War, George Washington survived having had two horses shot from under him and four bullets piercing his coat.
Eg0m7 TIL cats respond to baby talk, but only if it's coming from their owner
e0yvJ TIL One of the biggest shootouts in US history occurred on this date 23 years ago
VMaQQ TIL it takes four days of good sleep to fully recover from just 1 hour of needed sleep lost
Gd44 TIL Three years before Robert E. Lee was born, his mother, Anne Hill Carter, was thought to have died from yellow fever, and was placed in the family vault until a caretaker heard a faint voice coming out of the coffin three days later.