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TIL that psychopathy is present in around 1 percent of the population, but 25 percent of prisoners.

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OGQ91 TIL that the Darwin’s bark spider is one of the few non-mammalian species that engage in oral sex, with male spiders salivating onto the female's genitalia before, during, and after copulation.
ep6OE TIL about the Mapogo lion coalition, a gang of male lions who ruled over 170,000 acres of South Africa
0MJN TIL St. Patrick converted thousands in Northern Ireland to Christianity and used the shamrock to explain the Holy Trinity to Irish Pagans.
mxw0x TIL about the Singing Revolution which was a series of events between 1987 and 1991 in the Baltic States which incorporated the singing of patriotic songs as a method of protest against the Soviet Union. These events would ultimately result in the Baltic State gaining their independence.
awEwM TIL that the corpse of Vladamir Lenin has been meticulously preserved for almost 100 years, and continues to be on display in a mausoleum in Moscow.