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TIL Homosexual Black Swans form temporary threesomes with females to obtain eggs, then drives the female away after she lays the egg.

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78nN7 TIL during the last year of his life Jim Morrison would drink 3 bottles of whiskey per day
kOmEe Today I learned about a Houston resident physician who was decapitated in a terrible elevator accident in which his head was stuck inside the elevator with several horrified individuals until someone was able to come and free them.
LQgpm TIL The tallest dam on earth, the Usoi Dam, is not man-made. The dam is a landslide from the 1911 Sarez earthquake that blocked the Murghab River in Tajikistan. In 2015 the dam survived a 7.2 magnitude earthquake with no signs of deterioration.
wL9NE TIL there are certain foods astronauts can't eat in space, including bread because it lacks the right structure and shelf life, soda, because the carbonation is affected differently, and salt and pepper, because they act differently in microgravity
R7RXj TIL Ubisoft partnered with the British Museum to apply machine learning to speed the deciphering of ancient hieroglyphics