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TIL Sanskrit & Greek originated from the same language.

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VB6WQ TIL about Hanatarash, a Japanese noise band that used power tools, drills, and heavy machinery as their instruments. In 1985, at one of their shows, the frontman Yamantaka Eye drove through the back wall of the venue with an excavator and proceeded to throw a molotov cocktail at the wreckage.
n11d TIL It took Pixar 29 hours to render a single frame from Monsters University. If done on a single CPU it would have taken 10,000 years to finish.
ADMyB TIL that a team in Tanzania is training giant rats to spot Tuberculosis in human spit. The rats can test 100 samples in 10 to 20 minutes: a human with a microscope takes 4 days to test the same number. The same species is also used to detect landmines.
mmJv TIL: There’s a lizard whose mating behavior follows a Rock-Paper-Scissors evolutionary strategy. Males have 1 of 3 throat colors where orange beats blue, blue beats yellow, and yellow beats orange. For 4-5 years, one strategy dominates, after which the strategy that exploits its weakness takes over.
mOjR TIL a man from Texas died after attempting to play Russian roulette with a semi-automatic pistol. He was apparently unaware that semi-automatic pistols automatically insert a cartridge into the firing chamber when the gun is cocked. He was posthumously awarded a Darwin Award.