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TIL that Chickens (and all birds) still have the genes for building teeth in their DNA. The reason they don’t have teeth is that they don’t have a gene that says “use that tooth blueprint in the mouth”.

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ZpjBa TIL that on his first appearance, Lex Luthor had a full set of red hair, his Iconic bald look was the result of one of the artist at DC mistaking one of his Henchmen in the earlier comics for the real Lex.
OomLL TIL Natives in Canada had a traditional gift giving holiday nearly identical to Christmas called Potlatch until it was outlawed for being unchristian, hundreds of natives were sent to prison for continuing to celebrate it from 1921 until the law was finally repealed in the 1950s.
AGL7 TIL In 526 there was a worldwide dust cloud that blocked out the sun for an entire year. It resulted in widespread famine and disease. More than 80% of Scandinavia and China starved to death, 30% of Europe died and empires fell. The cause is unknown.
LWg0 TIL a screenwriter deliberately stranded himself on an isolated beach for research. During the time a volleyball washed ashore, inspiring him to create Wilson for the movie “Cast Away”
neQyb TIL the emperor tamarin was named for its elegant and distinctive mustache which was thought by some to resemble the mustache of German emperor Wilhelm II. In 1907, the Swiss zoologist Emil August Goeldi named the monkey "emperor" as a joke, but it then became the species name we know it by today.