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TIL 70% of murders in Detroit go unsolved.
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TIL of "Dreadnoughtus", one of the largest dinosaurs that ever existed. The fossil skeleton of the individual was 85ft/26m, but was not even a full grown adult and expected to grown even larger!
MeYNb
TIL the tapeworm diet started with women in the Victorian Era. The style was to have pale skin, eyes that looked dilated, red cheeks and lips, and a tiny waist. In the age of corsets, they also ingested tapeworms to lose weight. Still practiced today, women take a pill that has a tapeworm egg inside
4kNaN
TIL that yawning is linked to empathy among primates, and that even fish and birds can yawn.
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TIL that instead of saying “the cat’s pyjamas” or “the bee’s knees”, the French say “the baby Jesus in velvet shorts”
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TIL lime is poisonous to dogs