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TIL a child is 16 times safer riding to school in a school bus than in a family vehicle

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VB6nB TIL Two main populations of Dingos (West and East) do not share close ancestry and might represent separate waves of Humans bringing domesticated Dogs/Wolves into Australia 8,000 to 3,000 years ago.
6ZVQ TIL a bacteriologist killed 90% of all wild rabbits in France in the span of 2 years when he gave a disease called Myxomatosis to 2 rabbits in his backyard.
YpGZG TIL Leonardo da Vinci observed a relationship between the areas of tree trunks and branches that has been validated by current studies of many species, and has multiple theories explaining the relationship
gLe4 TIL The Russian tried to dig a hole through the Earth’s crust in the 1970’s. They reached 40,318 feet deep before they stopped. It is still the deepest hole humans have ever dug.
D1ykJ TIL of a 1698 beard tax in Russia, in which authorities were authorized by Emperor Peter I to publicly shave individuals who did not pay the tax on their beards. The tax was designed to make Russian men conform to Western European notions of grooming.