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TIL that unlike humans with 46 total chromosomes, great apes such as the chimpanzee have 48. So do potatoes. No, there is no relation.

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KYgD6 TIL that a set of triplets found each other coincidentally after being separated at adoption for a pyschological experiment, when a college student mistook one of the triplets for his unknown brother. Once the two reunited, the unusual story made the paper catching the attention of the third brother
16vDd TIL that ducks and ostriches produce erections by pumping lymphatic fluid (rather than blood) into their penis
ep7RE TIL that the ship's bell of the SS Terra Nova of Robert Falcon Scott's last polar expedition is rung everyday at the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge when everyone in the institute is invited for coffee in the morning and tea in the afternoon, as is British Tradition.
4XVOJ TIL more than 30 countries sell citizenship or residence permits for cash. In Thailand, the cost is $10,000, while fast-track residence in the UK requires $10m.
l77D1 TIL MIT engineers made the first-ever plane with no moving parts by using electricity to ionize air (2018).