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TIL there is video of someone born in the 1700s.
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TIL of Julian the Hospitaller. According to tradition, he was cursed to kill his parents and so he is the patron saint of murderers.
ZpaoB
TIL: large earthquakes can systematically trigger other large earthquakes on opposite sides of the earth
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TIL that in Iran, the US is the “Great Satan”, the USSR was the “Lesser Satan”, and Israel is the “Little Satan”.
1a7Kr
TIL that a domino can knock over another domino that's a maximum of 1.5 times larger than itself. Based on that progression, if you started with a domino the size of a carbon atom, you could knock over the Burj Khalifa with a 1.22 kilometer tall domino in just 74 steps.
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TIL that SETI scientists believed that the chances for finding intelligent extraterrestrial life were far greater than initially expected, since Earth developed two intelligent species - humans, and dolphins.