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TIL that scientists know of nine species of shark that can walk across land

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EgoY0 TIL that despite the popular belief that the USSR possesed hundreds of ICBMs and was winning the arms race, in reality they possesed only four by 1961.
1Vp8 TIL In the late Devonian period (during the evolution of terrestrial plants), there was a ‘wood crisis’. Trees became abundant, took CO2 out of the air, and caused an ice age, simply because the fungi that eventually would decompose dead wood & return the CO2 to the air hadn’t evolved yet.
A6ao TIL “Gotham”, as a nickname for New York City, was coined by Washington Irving in 1807 and literally means “Goat’s Town”.
R5vPQ TIL that Jerusalem has endured 52 assaults, been captured and recaptured 44 times, faced 23 sieges, and suffered complete destruction twice throughout its turbulent history.
VBlpD TIL that "Econophysics" is research field in Economics which models crises the way physicists model transitions of matter from fluid to solid state