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TIL “Mobbing” is a practice among Hawaiian monk seal where multiple males attack one female in an attempt to mate

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VMy78 TIL A moment was a medieval unit of time. The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 moments in a solar hour, a twelfth of the period between sunrise and sun. Although the length of a moment in modern seconds was therefore not fixed, on average, a moment corresponded to 90 seconds.
KO8yQ TIL that in 1999, Harvard physicist Lene Hau was able to slow down light to 17 meters per second and in 2001, was able to stop light completely.
16n84 TIL: Gouda cheese is pronounced "how dah"
oBrL8 TIL Oxford University, established in 1096AD, is older than the Aztec Civilization which emerged around 1325AD.