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TIL the "spots" on a giraffe are actually the yellow part

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NXPoP TIL: The people of Borneo have many beliefs concerning Orangutans. Some believe they are smart enough to speak, but choose not to. The Dayak creation myth say that they are God's first attempt at creating humans, while other tribes believe they reincarnate as orangutans.
Qk6e TIL that Hitler orchestrated what was the most powerful anti-smoking movement in the world during the 1930s and early 1940s
Y7V1Z TIL that Mozart's opera-writer, Lorenzo Da Ponte, also was a professor of Columbia University and ran a grocery store in Pennsylvania
4XmMb TIL that the Persian Empire counted how many soldiers in a battle died through counting the arrows that each soldier would place in a basket before a battle. When the soldiers came back, they each picked up an arrow and the remaining arrows would be counted to calculate the total amount of deaths
oBneA TIL of genetic sexual attraction,where people with similar genes tend to be mutually attracted. This is often cancelled by the Westermarck effect:children raised together rarely become mutually attracted when older. Thus,separated siblings who reunite as adults have a high risk of sexual attraction.