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TIL that Human Evolution is actually accelerating. The rate of evolution is far greater in the last few thousand years than it had been in the six million years since we split from our last common ancestor with present day chimpanzees.

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yVbJJ TIL The first beer brewers were women. Beer is thought to have been invented by the Sumerians, who lived in what is now Iraq, around 8,000 BC and ancient tablets have been unearthed showing the original brewers were women. The Sumerians even had a goddess of beer, Ninkasi.
XEJ5E TIL that the morning singing of birds is called the "dawn chorus". It is mostly male birds that sing in the morning and it is theorized that they do so to show fitness, the air and low ambient noise allows for clearer signal, and it's too dark to really do anything else.
wox68 TIL that not only do John McClane from Die Hard and Martin Riggs from Lethal weapon use the same gun, but it's the same prop.
7na7 TIL there is a branch in psychology whose purpose is to use scientific understanding and effective interventions to aid to satisfactory normal life rather than merely treating mental illness. It’s called positive psychology.
E11gd TIL an American woman never learned what happened to her husband, whose plane was shot down over Les Ventes, France during WWII. She finally got her congressman to reopen his case in 2011. She was shocked to learn the town had been memorializing him and his sacrifice for 67 years.