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TIL of Mount Kemukus, a hilltop shrine in Central Java where people go to have sex with other pilgrims who are total strangers, to bring goodluck.

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9YrxD TIL Ravens can solve puzzles that require a flexible planning ability previously documented only in people and great apes. They learned to pass up a small food reward in favor of a tool they used to get a much better reward and barter with bottle caps, concepts a toddler would struggle to understand
M7M4W TIL "Entrance of the gladiators", a piece strongly associated with clowns and circus music, was originally intended to be inspiring marching music for war.
LkkJP Lots of animals reproduce asexually. Why not humans?
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