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TIL Sanskrit & Greek originated from the same language.
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gg0y
TIL there is a species of wood frog in Alaska that freezes during Winter, its heart and breathing stops and its blood freezes. Then as Spring comes around, it thaws out, hops off and carries on with life.
wonnY
TIL that Abraham Lincoln delivered a captivating speech that was so engrossing that reporters in attendance ceased taking notes, resulting in a loss of the speech's content.
yQwZa
TIL that in 2012 F1 team Lotus agreed to pay Kimi Raikkonen around 50,000 euros for every point he scores in two years. Kimi ended up scoring 390 points in those two years resulting in 19.4 million euros bonus (higher than his salary), which almost ended up bankrupting Lotus.
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TIL nobody's done the intricate calculations to find the average distance between a human and a spider.
oML7
TIL of “Mr. Trash Wheel”, a solar-powered device in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor that has removed 160 tons of garbage from the harbor in just under a year.