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TIL that although pandas have switched to a bamboo only diet for 2.4 million years, they have experienced little to no changes in their digestive system and are completely able to eat and digest meat.

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5veR TIL Jeff Bridges said of working on Iron Man, “They had no script, man. We would show up for big scenes every day and we wouldn’t know what we were going to say. We would go into our trailer and call up writers on the phone, ‘You got any ideas?’”
N7Oge TIL in 2003, North Korea suggested several symbols which were included in international Unicode, later becoming emojis. They requested ☕ to mark tea houses on maps and ⚐ & ⚑ for military battles and victories. They also requested ⬆, ⬇, ⬅ (but no right arrow), ☔, ⚡, ⚠ and ⏏.
ZaxR TIL that Ramen (instant noodles) were voted as the greatest Japanese invention of the 20th century.
8aa1G TIL that some people think of natural disasters as manipulated disasters, and that society creates the circumstance of a disaster by denying victims the opportunities to properly deal with naturally destructive events.
j64mv TIL about Morris Kirksey who won two gold medals at the 1920 Summer Olympics for the USA in the 4x100-meter relay team and rugby. He joined a small band of athletes to win gold in two different sports. (he also won the silver in the 100 meters)