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TIL that there’s more people speaking french in Africa than in France

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16JD4 TIL Men and women have different hearts and sex mismatch of transplants leads to higher death rates. Although males' bodies are more likely to reject female hearts, both sexes show 10% increased mortality when receiving a transplanted heart from someone of the opposite sex.
OoGyY The third molars—the last of a group of teeth that grinds food into easy-to-swallow chunks—tend to be overcrowded in adult human mouths, and thus require yanking. But every other toothed mammal has room for their “wisdom teeth,” and so did Neanderthals and other early hominids, says evolutionary biologist Leslea Hlusko of the University of California, Berkeley. So why have those teeth become such a pain for us?
9w40M TIL Since 2011, Chinese astronauts are officially banned from visiting the International Space Station
DQApV TIL Dark Horse Comics had to cancel several titles in the 1990’s including their CGW title as the comic industry was glutted & imploded in the 1990’s. However, they were saved by Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Ghost in the Shell, Frank Miller’s Sin City & 300 !
XEoB6 TIL John Hathorne was the only judge in the Salem Witch Trials never to apologize for his actions. His great-great grandson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, added a W to his last name to distance himself from him.