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TIL: Male praying mantises can still continue mating even after being decapitated by the female

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GApZ7 TIL humans can be born with tails.
v1Vo7 TIL that any Canadian citizen, who has lived in the Yukon for at least one year, can get free land from the government, provided they are willing to farm it.
9jEG TIL the words “apron” and “napkin” were originally “napron” and “apkin” but the preceding indefinite articles (“an” and “a”) were so confusing to the ear that the words eventually just changed.
RPxj TIL Isaac Newton developed the law of gravitation, calculus, and three laws of motion at the age of 23 all during the 2 years that Cambridge was closed due to plague.
X01ZD TIl the first page of the Gettysburg Address was written in Washington, in ink and on official stationery. The second page was written in Gettysburg, in pencil on a piece of that happened to be at hand.