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TIL that female snakes have 2 clitorises

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OG1Q6 TIL that Beverly Hills, CA was named after Beverly, Massachusetts, which was named after Beverly, England, which gets its name from Bevreli/Beverlac, meaning beaver-clearing or beaver lake
1alEP TIL it wasn't a single drug discovery that stopped people from dying of AIDS in the 1990s but the discovery that combining several drugs would each affect a different aspect of HIV and together force the virus into undetectable remission, called the "AIDS cocktail"
awjBN TIL about Mike the Chicken. A chicken that lived for 18 months without its head. It died by getting a kernal of corn stuck in its throat.
yQXnX TIL Paranormal psychic believers and skeptics showed no differences on tasks of memory distortion, autobiographical memory distortion, or working memory capacity. But skeptics consistently outperformed believers on several tasks tapping analytical or logical thinking as well as vocabulary.
0wm75 TIL that fishers, a member of the weasel family, are one of the few predators that seek out and kill porcupines and have been documented routinely preying on lynxes, being the primary cause of lynx mortality in the wild.