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TIL that the masked booby bird on Galapagos lays 2 eggs about six days apart and the stronger chick (typically the elder) will evict the weaker out of the nest where it will almost always die. Two eggs are laid as “insurance” in case one doesn’t hatch.

nePkW TIL of Mandeville's 1714 story of a thriving bee community that decides to live by virtue instead of self-interest - and collapses. Adam Smith incorporated this idea of 'private vice, public good' into his work, and today its a foundational principle of Capitalism and Western Civilisation.
0wN5N TIL that a chimpanzee became the 22nd most successful money manager on Wall St after choosing stocks by throwing darts at a board of 133 tech companies
0wV1y TiL Traditional English Breakfast of bacon eggs sausage black pudding baked beans & grilled tomato was available only for royals and the wealthy in the 1300s. In the 1950’s when goods became more available to everyone most people were able to adopt this full breakfast. That’s about 600 years later!
ne56P TIL Nothing Compares 2U by Sinead O'connor was a cover written by Prince and originally on the album The Family (1985). He invited her to his home after release and he told her he didn't like her saying bad words in interviews so she told him to "F*** off" and she left after he got violent over it.
69bDZ TIL sick Crimean War soldiers first called Florence Nightingale “The Lady with the Hammer” for breaking into locked storage cabinets for medicine, but a journalist found it unladylike and popularized her enduring title, “The Lady with the Lamp” instead.