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TIL that California condor chicks were fed with condor puppets to increase egg laying rate and to avoid them imprinting on humans

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X1br TIL Corydora fish, females will attach their mouth to the males genitals and suck the sperm. The sperm rapidly moves through her intestines and is discharged together with her eggs into a pouch formed by her pelvic fins
VMWDG TIL of Roza Shanina, whose teenage brother was killed by Germans in WWII. Seeing how sad her mother was, she joined the Red Army as a 17-year old sniper and killed 59 Nazis as revenge.
l77WA TIL that the last American pilot to become an ace (score 5 or more air-to-air combat kills) was Richard Stephen Richie. He scored his 5th kill in August, 1972. Since him, no American pilot has more than 3 kills.
MQdV TIL a 2003 study showed that armed U.S. citizens shoot and kill more criminals than police and have fewer incidents of mistakenly identifying the criminal.
GAKX4 TIL: A study showed that men are attracted to the contrapposto stance, invented by the Greeks which feature the subject shifting weight onto one foot. Their gaze linger on the bend as it increases the Waist Hip Ratio. This helps explain high heels, catwalks, and belly dancing.