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TIL most escaped mental patients just go home and resume their everyday activities (www.psychiatricnursing.org)
submitted 5 months ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
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TIL about the Union of the Comoros; an archipelagic country off the southeast coast of Africa with an estimated population of 1 million people. (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 5 months ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
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TIL that the House of Representatives once investigated TV quiz shows to see if they were rigged (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that while Alexander the Great conquered the known world, he never attempted to attack the city-state of Sparta. (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 5 months ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
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TIL America’s Loneliness Epidemic: Nearly 40 MILLION American adults now live alone and they are 64% more likely to be depressed than their peers (alltoowhale.com)
submitted 5 months ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
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TIL that just a year after the failed invasion by the Spanish Armada, the English launch their own English Armada against Spain, which also failed. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that the New Testament in the BIBLE was written nearly 100 years after Jesus Christ ~ 70 CE (carm.org)
submitted 5 months ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
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TIL that a species of flatworm sword fights with their penises to mate (youtu.be)
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TIL elephants call each other by name and respond when they hear others call their name (e360.yale.edu)
submitted 5 months ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
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TIL Between 1973 and 1980, about 1000 cases of bismuth-related neurotoxicity were reported in France, resulting in a ban on bismuth compounds. (bmcneurol.biomedcentral.com)
submitted 5 months ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
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TIL that King Norodom Sihamoni of Cambodia is the only ruling monarch in the world to be fluent in Czech. (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 5 months ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
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TIL Kaninhoppning also known as Rabbit agility, is a sport where rabbits are led through a course by their owners, similar to horse show jumping. It began in Sweden in the early 1970s. (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 5 months ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
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TIL Giant Goose Existed (www.bbc.com)
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TIL there's a "grammar vigilante" who goes out in the dead of night correcting street signs and shop fronts where the apostrophes are in the wrong place (www.bbc.com)
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TIL A microscope can simply be reversed to make a telescope. Both telescopes and microscopes were in use in Holland by the end of the sixteenth century (www.bristol.ac.uk)
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TIL Legend of the Chambered is a game series created by Markus "Notch" Persson, the creator of Minecraft. Notch reused many item textures from the 2008 version of Legend of the Chambered in Minecraft. (youtu.be)
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TIL that 4-horned sheep and goats have existed for a long time. And that the responsible gene mutation has recently been identified. (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world to c/til@lemmy.ca
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Press release on the scientific discovery: https://www.inrae.fr/en/news/mystery-four-horned-goats-and-sheep-finally-solved

Their results reveal that polycerate individuals all carry a mutation affecting the same gene: HOXD1. This is a homeotic gene, which means that it is involved in the organisation of the body plan during the development of embryos.

I hope no mad scientist ever plays with that gene 😅

Article of the photo source https://myanmarnewsfeed.xyz/la-oveja-hebridean-de-cuatro-cuernos-una-criatura-iconica-y-misteriosa/

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TIL that we don’t know who named the Earth. Unlike other planets there are no records of how it got its name. The name Earth, and variations of it, date back 1000+ years. (www.skyatnightmagazine.com)
submitted 5 months ago by Blaze@reddthat.com to c/til@lemmy.ca
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TIL the "Ring" spawned a multimedia franchise in Japan (unrelated to the American remake) which crossed over with the Grudge franchise (also unrelated to the American remake) (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 5 months ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
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TIL about a billions of years old meteorite that held a beautiful secret. (www.dailystar.co.uk)
submitted 5 months ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
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TIL about “Crown Shyness” (thursd.com)
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TIL about a Fiat Ad that sent out some 50,000 anonymous love letters to young women. Women felt stalked and locked themselves in their apartments. (nowiknow.com)
submitted 5 months ago by Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world to c/til@lemmy.ca
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The notes Fiat sent out were part of a marketing campaign to introduce the Cinquecento to Spanish consumers — the plan was to prime demand with the request “for a couple of minutes [together]” and then, four to six days later, follow up with a letter explaining that the note was from the car company with an invitation for a test drive.

But by the time those notes arrived, the damage had already been done. Women reported the threatening-sounding notes to local authorities. Communities were on the lookout for deranged love-lorn maniacs.

One of the 50,000 targets, though, did end up taking Fiat up on their offer for a few minutes — she asked for her day in court. And she won.

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TIL that Lenin's body has been preserved for more than 100 years (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 5 months ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
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Today I Learned June is Men's Mental Health Month (menshealthmonth.org)
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TIL that powerful jets of high-energy particles created by supermassive black holes must be pointed at Earth to be called a Blazar (www.nasa.gov)
submitted 5 months ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
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