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TIL that smaller creatures experience time much faster than we do, so to them we seem to be moving in slow motion.

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8e6Kb TIL that in 2012 a 15 year old girl in Pakistan was the target of an assassination attempt because of her Pro-Womens Education activism. In 2014 she would win a Nobel Peace Prize, making her the youngest ever Nobel laureate at 17.
DPne TIL there’s a game that makes you make decisions as though you were a single parent with only $1,000 left and most people don’t get past 11 minutes into it
0d4n5 TIL only 6,800 Americans were killed in action over the course of the entire 8 years of the Revolutionary War
QJRBE TIL that the Stella Octangula acquired that name in 1609 from German astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler
DAxe TIL in 1986 Glasgow showed support to Nelson Mandela by re-naming a street after him; the street the South African consulate was on