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TIL cows and humans have very similar reproductive systems.

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p8JEp TIL of the 'Flogsta Scream'. Every evening at 10pm students in the town of Uppsala, Sweden, let out a collective scream as a response to the stress of university life.
0d1jL TIL sticky rice was used in the brick mortar during the construction of the Great Wall of China and is one of the factors that has kept it standing for so long!
b6ZgN TIL that alligators can't die of old age. The only way they die is by running out of available food consumption or by being killed by humans. They live an average of 30-50 years old.
EnNd TIL that there is a species of rhino that is so endangered, that it has its own 24 hour armed gaurds to protect it from poachers.
NXrYb TIL that when the British sent their first diplomatic mission to China in 1793, the Chinese spoke to them in Latin because last time they communicated diplomatically with Europeans was 1600 years ago with Roman empire.