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TIL orangutan means the person of the forests in Malay.
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TIL the reason England kept the Germanic ‘Earl’ rather than the Latinised 'Count’ in the Middle Ages was because 'Count’ was too phonetically similar to 'cunt’
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TIL in Feb, 2000, 60 Minutes did an exposé on “Echelon,” a top secret data collection program that vacuums up vast amounts of communications worldwide. Democracies usually have laws against spying on citizens, but Frost says Echelon members could ask other members to spy on their citizens for them
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TIL about medical maggot teabag therapy - Maggot bags are used to clean away dead tissue while ignoring living flesh, while secreting antimicrobial molecules that disinfect the wound. They are proving useful against the rise of bacteria that's resistant to several widely used antibiotics.
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TIL approximately 25% of all black swan pairings are between homosexual males. Some couples are so eager for cygnets that “They steal nests, or form temporary threesomes with females to obtain eggs, driving away the female after she lays the eggs”.
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TIL the Sirius star system is visible with the naked eye in the daytime sky given the right conditions