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TIL the term "Interest Convergence" wherein interests of minorities only improve when viewed as benefiting the majority - eg. ability to study/work from home for disabled is only now being fully actualised as it benefits all

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RG7Q TIL the world’s oldest man is celebrating his bar mitzvah at age 113. His first one, 100 years ago, was cancelled due to World War 1.
XR6j TIL There is a Spanish version of the song “John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt” called “Juan Pedro Pablo de la Mar”
kZAW TIL Tree roots from different trees can physically fuse together; “like connecting [the] blood vessels of two different people. One tree gives the other tree a permanent transfusion.”
dpw7 TIL- The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant which suffered a reactor melt down in 1986, continued to produce electricity until 2000, and still has three intact nuclear reactors.
vP6Vj Today I Learned that male Spiders eat females too.