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TIL wasps have facial recognition skills on par with humans.

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8aEeZ TIL Pablo Escobar offered to pay off Columbia’s $10 billion foreign debt in order to avoid prosecution
ZpR8R TIL that sharks, whose oldest known fossils are from ~450 mya, are much older than Polaris, the youngest, largest, and brightest star in the Polaris system being only 70 myo.
GYnB7 TIL that in the mid 1800s people believed that travelling by train could cause insanity due to the high speeds.
ADkjl TIL that former NBA player Andrew Bynum was once thrown out of a team practice session because he kept shooting the ball whenever he touched it, regardless of how far away he was from the basket.
P1QAG TIL Each year, NASA receives close to 1,000 astronaut appearance requests and there is a specific Astronaut Appearances Office in Houston, Texas. They can't receive honoraria since Federal regulations prevent astronauts from accepting gifts valued greater than $20