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TIL In his book The Descent Of Man, Charles Darwin wondered whether human language abilities had started with singing. By studying fossils of hyoid bone in the throat, humans would have had the ability to sing over 530,000 years ago

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wLBLP TIL Carole King has written or co-written 118 pop hits on the Billboard Hot 100. She also wrote 61 hits that charted in the UK, making her the most successful female songwriter on the UK singles charts between 1962 and 2005
M74BK TIL, Synthetic Testosterone is derived from Soy. The term soy boy really is ironic
1PED TIL that “penguin shit is like water i.e. not viscous” and that a penguin can shoot shit with a power of 4600 pascals!
epkdn TIL about the CFA franc, a currency system for 14 former French colonies that’s managed in France and pegged to the Euro making monetary independence for the member nations all but impossible
rRKko TIL of Elizabeth Shoaf. She was abducted by a sexual predator & held underground. Using her wit, she gained his trust & managed to get his phone. She text home & police traced it. They stupidly publicly released that she text home & the abductor heard it on the radio. Police saved her in time.