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TIL Cockroaches grown in space became quicker and stronger than their terrestrial counterparts

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4k9Kg TIL Alaska missed 11 days during the transfer from the Russian Empire to the US in 1867, since they switched from the Julian to the Gregorian Calendar
DjeP TIL there was a competition between professional investors, teenagers, and Orlando the Cat to see who could earn the most money in the stock market during 2012. Orlando, with an increase of 10.8%, beat the investors (3.5%) and the teenagers (-3.2%) by throwing his toy mouse to select his stocks.
XEvJ6 TIL Machine Learning models can be fooled badly. It confidently recognizes images which are unrecognizable to humans.
oB0Z7 TIL that to tell how old sharks are, they count the rings in the vertebrae
nvMY TIL that the US Republican Party was founded on anti-slavery in 1854 and was considered a ‘3rd party’ when candidate Abraham Lincoln was elected president just 6 years later.