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TIL Higher intelligence has been linked to unconventional sexual practices aswell as frequent sexual fantasies and thoughts.

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Ev6w TIL that usury, the practice of giving loans that unfairly enrich the lender (e.g., interest), is condemned in most religious texts, including those of Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and others.
W77jB TIL in every whale's earwax is a record of its lifetime exposure to pollutants.
o9Gr TIL Norwegians consume the most cognac in the world, per person, in relation to the population (5 million)
9GAD TIL that France sent 800 women to Quebec. The “Filles du Roi” (“Daughters of the King”) were poor women who in 1663 agreed to go to the mostly male New France colony to marry. It worked; the population more than doubled in 10 years, and two-thirds of French Canadians today are their descendants.
W79L TIL Hundreds of millions of birds are killed each year colliding with manmade structures