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Til Dr. Archibald spent several years acting as the mate of a female whooping crane sleeping, dancing, and building nests with her as part of an effort to save the species from extinction. He received award for his work.

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JmeV TIL Benoit B. Mandelbrot’s middle initial stands for Benoit B. Mandelbrot. The father of fractal geometry has a name that is a fractal.
j5wj TIL there’s a town called Boring in Oregon, and it’s twinned with a Scottish town called Dull.
L1Xr TIL in 1938 a revolver-camera was invented to take a picture just as the trigger was pulled.
jNO9X TIL. Spain fought the longest and most expensive war of their conquest of modern day Mexico against the Chchimecas. They ultimately gave up and negotiated peace, ensuring the preservation of their culture into modern times and becoming one of the few pre-Columbian culures to fully survive
Oo7yg TIL of Agafia Lykov, a hermit who lived in Siberian wilderness for all of her 75+ yrs. Her family lived in isolation 'til in her 35 yrs, geologist stumbled upon their dwelling place. She's the last surviving family member, in 1988 to present, she lived alone in the cold mountainside of Khakassia