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TIL Female penguins, even when in a committed relationship, will exchange sexual favors with strange males for the pebbles they need to build their nests.

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4kpGb TIL: St. Louis was the 4th largest city in 1910 (8th largest as recently as 1950, and now 70th), Buffalo was the 10th largest (now 78th). Cleveland was the 6th largest in 1940 (now 54th), Detroit was the 4th largest (7th largest as recently as 1990, and now 27th).
R7nQj TIL A swarm of 20,000 bees once followed a car for two days because their queen was inside the car
e05xg TIL the Lurie family tree is considered the oldest (3000 years old, started 1037 BCE) family tree in existence. It begins with King David and continues up to the present day and includes among its members Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx and many kings of Judah, and almost every Ashkenazi Jew in existence.
won16 TIL Ari Nagel aka "The Sperminator" has fathered over 100 children. He turns down no woman and doesn't charge for his services, although he pays child support for several of them. Three documentaries, including The Baby Daddy (2022) and Spermworld (2024), have featured his contributions.
N7j98 TIL that scientists are and have been working on ways to record dreams. They have even recorded shapes through and other images through fMRI machines. One day soon, maybe we can record our dreams.