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TIL, Neanderthals and Woolly Mammoths Shared Genetic Traits

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7r85O TIL in 2011 a British restaurant started charging customers $5 for bringing a baby "because the infants take up space in the restaurant, even if they aren't eating"
ADWla TIL cows have best friends, and get stressed when separated.
kOZGe TIL that foxes use the earth’s magnetic field to help them locate mice under the snow. The article explains that when they face northeast they are 56% more likely to have a successful hunt.
1ZYV TIL North Korea has a “three generations of punishment” system, where individuals found guilty of a crime are sent to the labour camps with their entire family.The subsequent two generations of that family are then born in the camp and live their lives locked up inside
gMe7A TIL that the excess skin/fat on a cats belly is called the 'primordial pouch' and apparently it's is to protect a cats organs in a fight