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dD81E TIL In the Atacama Desert in Chile, there is a 11 meter (36 ft) tall hand sculpture, called Mano del Desierto. It was created by Mario Irarrázabal to represent the injustice within Chile in the past.
VMxG TIL that a computer as powerful as the human brain would be able to perform about 38 thousand trillion operations per second and hold about 3,584 terabytes of memory.
kNkd TIL the black panther is not a species but a melanistic (opposite to albinistic) jaguar or leopard
4kyrX TIL After mating, males of some species of Katydids give females a sperm sac as a gift.
rNded TIL in the mid-60s, Canadian composer Galt MacDermot, who was then a 38 year old father of four, was offered to compose the music for the hippie-rock musical “Hair”. Galt admitted that he had no clue what a hippie even was, but was “enthusiastic to do a rock-and-roll show.”