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TIL that the ratio between your index and ring finger is indicative of prenatal testosterone/estrogen exposure and is also correlated with various traits related to health, behavior, and even sexuality later in life.

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xv0k TIL There is a statue of George Washington in Britain that sits on top of soil imported from Virginia, due to Washington exclaiming “I will never set foot in Britain again!”
grM0b TIL about the Battle of Dupplin Moor, where an English army defeated a Scottish army at least 10 times larger. Many of the Scots were compressed into a valley and suffocated, unable to fight or move.
y6EJ TIL that Thomas Jefferson believed Lewis and Clark would encounter Woolly Mammoths, mountains of salt, and a race of Welsh-speaking Indians along their journey west.
0w50N TIL America's last wooly Mammoths died of thirst 15 000 years ago after the land bridge to Russia eroded stranding them on a small, remote island Alaskan Island.
YpZWP TIL that it's illegal to die in Longyearbyen, Svalbard (Norway) because dead bodies weren't decomposing properly because of how far north it is. If someone is dying, every effort will be made to ship them to the mainland.