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TIL Out of 3000 salmon eggs, only 5 or 6 will reach adulthood

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gOA7 TIL in a study it was found that, when domestic violence is one-sided, in 70% of the cases, women were the perpetrators
Ma9A TIL that a radio station in Cincinatti was the first to broadcast at 500-kilowatts - a signal so powerful, some could hear the station from the metal in their mattresses and box springs.
YpW9v TIL Yoda is supposed to speak in a weird way. I'm Hungarian, and I've always watched Star Wars dubbed until now. The Hungarian language is almost completely unrestricted about the order of words in a sentence, it only determines what the speaker wants to emphasize.
Eg1D0 TIL of the "Boring Billion". From roughly 1.8 billion BC to 0.8 billion BC, relatively nothing happened on earth. There was tectonic stability, a static climate, and hardly any biological evolution. It has been termed "The Dullest Time in Earth's History".
0wRWv TIL its revealed in Scooby Doo: Mystery Inc. the reason Scooby can talk is due to being a descendant of Anunnaki. Anunnaki are spirits that inhabit bodies of animals and are responsible for China’s Monkey King and some Egyptian Gods. Their descendants are talking animals and Scooby is one of them.