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TIL Hyenas are genetically closer to cats than dogs

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6E1pm TIL that Salvador Dalí and Sigmund Freud met in 1938. Dalí started sketching Freud and Freud whispered to his friends: “That boy looks like a fanatic.” The remark, repeated to Dalí, delighted him.
0d5nL TIL about the "Three Hares Motif". The three hares is a circular motif appearing in sacred sites from China, the Middle East and churches and synagogues of Europe. ts origins and original significance are uncertain, as are the reasons why it appears in such diverse locations.
pww4 TIL that the female spotted hyena is the only mammalian species to lack an external vagina, and gives birth through a pseudopenis. This penis is used for communication and can become erect.
AGEd TIL grasshoppers require 12 times less feed to produce a kilogram of edible mass than cattle. With global population growing, climate change etc, United Nations wants us to mass produce bugs for human consumption.
oB0mL TIL that Cynethryth, wife of Mercian King Offa, is the only Anglo-Saxon queen known to have coins issued in her name.