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TIL that 85 million years before butterflies existed, there was another insect that looked and acted exactly like a butterfly.

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N7LWb TIL that there is no established reason why men have beards. Possible explanations include beards increasing attractiveness to women (inter-sexual selection) or increasing dominance amongst other males (intra-sexual selection) by signalling sexual maturity and increasing perceived jaw size.
OoRAY TIL Jeremy Bentham's dressed skeleton is on display in the UCL Student Union. Bentham donated his body to science, but requested that after dissection, they preserve and dress his body in his own clothes, and bring him to meetings and social events. He died in 1832 and was moved to UCL in 1850.
kJnJE TIL, Robert Todd Lincoln (son of Abraham Lincoln) once provided legal assistance to George Washington Custis Lee (son of Robert E. Lee) in a legal case against the US Federal Government regarding Lee’s family mansion
e04aL TIL that in April of 2018, scientists at the Gladstone Institutes in California completely erased Alzheimer’s disease damage in human cells by changing the structure of one protein.
pjMG TIL that the French praised ‘Ratatouille’ for perfectly recreating the environment of a restaurant kitchen. One chef said, “When Colette teaches the young cook how you cut onions, how you cook vegetables in a pan, how you season everything — that’s it, that’s how we do it!”