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TIL Box turtles evolved from water to land, then back to the water, then back to the land again

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rRD8e TIL that 'Karens' will always be 'Karens'
QJlmp TIL Chinese mathematician Zhang Heng invented a seismometer in 132 CE which was used to detect an earthquake 250 miles away
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