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TIL Researchers have found a link between pigmentation (melanocortin system) and aggression/promiscuity in animals

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4XJDb TIL the common Swift spends most of its entire life without landing. They are able to eat, drink, mate, and sleep while flying.
WkdAN TIL Sabiha Gökçen, one of the 13 children adopted by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, became at the age of 23 the world's first female fighter pilot.
Wkx4d TIL the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, written 1000 years before Pythogoras, shows how to find the volume of cylindrical and rectangular granaries as well as how to find the area of a circle
vP4EK TIL of the "D-Day Daily Telegraph crossword security alarm", where codenames related to the Operation Overlord plans appeared as solutions in crosswords in the British newspaper.
nWkMr TIL that there was a child named Edmund Thomas Clint who was an Indian child prodigy that drew over 25,000 paintings during his life of 6 years and 11 months. One of his paintings was a drawing named "Temple Festival", which was made circa 1982.