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TIL that Neanderthals had nasally high-pitched voices

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0wWk5 TIL of the TomTato, a commercially available graft of potato and tomato, which will grow potatos below ground and tomatos above ground.
8e1jP TIL that America's poorest state (Mississippis) has a higher GDP per capita than China's richest province (Jiangsu). Likewise, China's poorest province (Gansu) has a higher GDP per capita than India's richest state (Goa).
4GbN TIL vasectomies increase 50% right before March Madness, that way men can sit at home and watch the tournament while recovering.
OGZNR TIL that during rehearsals for a 2003 Saturday Night Live episode, Matthew McConaughey felt up the breasts of cast member Rachel Dratch while ad-libbing in-character. Dratch kept the rehearsal footage and in July of that year, showed footage of it on Late Night with Conan O'Brian.
M7DvV TIL that after Colonel Shaw died in battle, Confederates buried him in a mass grave as an insult for leading black soldiers. Union troops tried to recover his body, but his father sent a letter saying "We would not have his body removed from where it lies surrounded by his brave and devoted soldiers