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TIL about unisexual mole salamanders - a group of all-female salamanders that use a unique reproductive strategy called kleptogenesis. These salamanders "steal" sperm from up to five different species of salamanders in the Ambystoma genus and use it to produce female hybrid offspring.

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1xKr TIL that Russian and NATO troops were very close to using force against each other in Kosovo, 1999. A NATO commander disobeyed the orders he was given, reportedly saying “I’m not going to start the Third World War for you” to his superior, who was later fired.
9GAD TIL that France sent 800 women to Quebec. The “Filles du Roi” (“Daughters of the King”) were poor women who in 1663 agreed to go to the mostly male New France colony to marry. It worked; the population more than doubled in 10 years, and two-thirds of French Canadians today are their descendants.
WkkVB TIL historical literary evidence claims that Indian people were far more broad minded than untill 18th century as they use to see homosexual dimensions of human life like other universal diversities, it is also written in rigveda that "what seems unnatural is also natural.
0woWy TIL the Russian Empire we’re in a position to go to war with Britain if they intervened in the US Civil War. This Russo-American ‘alliance’ may have saved the Union.
VMA9B TIL That a man in Florida woke up with a splitting migraine. When he arrives at the hospital, doctors found a bullet in his head. His wife had shot him in the head while he slept.