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TIL: Penguin Poop Powers Antarctic Cloud Formation.

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epE6k TIL the ending of "Fever Pitch" had to be rewritten, with additional filming, when the Red Sox defeated the Yankees and St. Louis Cardinals to win the 2004 World Series. The writers had originally assumed the Red Sox would lose.
v1Alr TIL female wallabies are permanently pregnant throughout their adulthood. They have two uteruses and can conceive a new baby before birthing another.
kOgK1 TIL a study found that people had empathy for an attacked victim suffering a broken leg, multiple lacerations and unconscious in the following order, most empathy to least empathy: a one-year-old human, a puppy, an adult dog, a 30-year-old man.
LQxPd TIL The infamous Stanford Prison Experiment done by Philip Zambardo was entirely flawed. Zimbardo copied one of his students studies done 3 months prior, and used coercion, fear, and manipulation to get the results he wanted. This has led to many negative beliefs about human nature.
P15jn TIL that Egyptian pyramid builders were paid in beer