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TIL that many invertebrates like crustaceans feel pain.

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Br1JK TIL Lamborghini started as a tractor company. In the early 1960’s, its founder, Ferruccio Lamborghini, unimpressed with sports cars of the time, set out to build his own. He was also told, “You may be able to drive a tractor, but you will never be able to handle a Ferrari,” by Enzo Ferrari.
5Vdl8 TIL: The longest confirmed lightning bolt occurred in 2022 and traveled 477 miles across 3 states.
LQOQZ TIL that in his famous paper, Computing Machinery And Intelligence, Alan Turing recommended that the Turing Test be performed in a 'telepathy-proof room' so the human couldn't use psychic powers to identify the computer
XEkjX TIL: Leonard Jerome (Winston Churchill's grandfather) defended The NY Times with a gatling gun during the New York Draft Riots.
ANbOx TIL about the Tunguska Event: In 1908, an 180 foot wide asteroid exploded while entering the Earth's atmosphere in Russia's East Siberian Taiga. It presumably exploded 4 miles above the surface, killing 3 people, and felled 80M trees over an area of 830 sq miles.