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TIL An anthropologist created the language "Beama" for the film Alpha, about a young man separated from his tribe who befriends a wolf 20,000 years ago. She explored the research on phonetic sounds of protolanguages to determine how Beama should sound, and the director preferred more melodic-sounds

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Y7Mnx TIL of Mrs Chippy, a ship's cat aboard the Endurance during Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic expedition. After Shackleton drove the ship into an ice-locked position, stranding everyone on the ice, he ordered the cat and several dogs shot because they were "weak".
kJav4 TIL It takes more than 4 million average-sized farts a year to generate enough biogas to power a large-sized home.
erL4 TIL most color laser printers sold today create an invisible code that records where and when a page was printed.
neopW Today I learned that flat-faced dogs like pugs are so deformed that veterinary students can mistake their x-rays for dogs that have been hit by cars. One vet has publicly stated that their nose is so misshapen that they only get enough oxygen when they're intubated with a breathing tube.
BeKd TIL: World’s richest woman, Gina Rinehart, wants to use nuclear bombs for mining, bulldoze the great barrier reef to dump mining waste into the ocean and advocates a $2-a-day pay