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TIL DNA evidence shows that groups in the Amazon are more closely related to indigenous Australians than Native Americans

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5YLQQ TIL Germany tried brokering peace between the China and Japan during WW2
Memj7 TIL when a ptition for the decrimnalization of all consensual relations between adults and minors below the age of fifteen was addressed to the French parliment in 1977, it was signed by such intellectuals as Michel Foucault, Jean-Paul Sartre, Roland Barthes and Simone de Beauvoir.
eprOL TIL Pineapple were rented in the 17th century because it's so expensive and associated with luxury. People displayed pineapples as dinnertime ornaments on special plates which would allow the pineapple to be seen and admired but surrounded by other, cheaper, fruit for eating.
kJLpW TIL some types of fig require a special breed of wasp to pollinate the females fruits. The female wasp crawls inside through a hole so narrow that she loses her wings in the process and becomes trapped. The fig produces an enzyme that digests this wasp completely, so the crunchy bits are just seeds
8YKV TIL That a guinea pig named Randy broke into a female enclosure and impregnated over 100 female guinea pigs.