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TIL that if the genealogy of the early Germanic chroniclers is true, Queen Elizabeth II is descended from the god Odin

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R7GZ8 TIL Blue eyes are not due to pigmentation, and actually appear blue due to their structure in the same way the sky does.
VM68m TIL 'fight or flight' is actually a description of the male response to acute stress. The female response can be more accurately described as 'tend and befriend'. This has implications for how we think about what stress does to our bodies and how best to cope with and recover from it.
MApW TIL that the Republican Party hasn’t won a Presidential election without a Bush or Nixon on the ballot since 1928.
rNaj1 TIL the CIA has a venture capital fund it uses to identify and fund various technologies with "national security" interest
QNPB9 TIL Las Vegas considered replacing Fremont Street with a canal