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TIL A study shows pairing giant pandas with a preferred partner increased the probability of intromission success and producing a cub. Of the 25 females mated to a preferred partner, 72% had successful intromission.

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AEwB TIL child prodigy Michael Kearney learned how to read by 10 months old, graduated high school at age 6, earned an Anthropology degree at age 10, earned two Master’s degrees in Chemistry and Computer Science at ages 14 and 18 respectively, and earned his PhD in Chemistry at age 22
OlQa TIL J. R. R. Tolkien began work on The Hobbit one day early in the 1930s, when he was marking School papers. He found a blank page. Suddenly inspired, he wrote the words, “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.”
7xar TIL the human body produces trace amounts of dimethyltryptamine (DMT) which has been called “The most powerful hallucinogen known to man and science.”
00g5 TIL that scientists have created kittens that glow in the dark to help fight AIDS
WaMo TIL that rap battles existed long before. “Flyting” was an insult battle practiced even in Medieval England’s courts.