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Today I Learned: in the first two weeks after birth, female babies may menstruate due to the drop off in estrogen after leaving their mother’s body

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ymOe TIL of a guy who made a chicken sandwich literally from scratch – he grew a garden, harvested wheat, slaughtered a chicken, travelled to boil ocean water for salt, etc – it took him 6 months and cost him $1,500. He didn’t think it tasted very good.
ne4ld TIL a wobble of Earth’s axis causes the Sahara to cycle between desert and grassland every 23,000 years.
78Wg7 TIL closed-cup white mushrooms, common in supermarkets, are all descended from one mutant Agaricus Bisporus (usually brown) mushroom found in 1925.
Mede0 TIL that in 1998, during an economic crisis in Russia, teachers in western Siberia were being paid with vodka. The decision came about after attempts to pay them with toilet paper and funeral accessories 'provoked indignation'; other workers were offered bikes, cabbages and bras as payment.
dDDx7 TIL there are 11 emerging megaregions in the US, with the fastest growing being the Piedmont Atlantic megalopolis, stretching from Birmingham, through Atlanta, up to Raleigh-Durham.