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TIL: Humans are adapted for persistence hunting making them among the best distance runners among all running animals.

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VMxNp TIL of the Madigan Foal Squeeze. This treatment for foals that don't show interest in their mother or nursing simulates the pressure the foal would have felt in the birth canal. It's thought that the pressure signals the foal's body to stop producing a sedative that keeps it calm in the womb.
l7lPr TIL the funk band War started out as a backing band for Football Hall of Famer Deacon Jones.
oBByA TIL that Tiger Wood's real first name is Eldrick and was given the nickname "Tiger" after a Vietnamese soldier and friend of his father’s.
7X57 TIL That in just 36 years, the average price per Gigabyte of Hard drive storage has fallen from over $400,000 to ₵0.19
5Xb9 TIL that the Human Brain’s ability to store memories is equivalent to about 2.5 petabytes of binary data