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TIL When a flock of starlings are murmurating (flying in those shape-shifting patterns) Each individual birds' movements are copied by 7 of its closest neighbours, and each of those neighbours' movements affect 7 more and so on through the flock.

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y0RJ TIL The Fibonacci sequence can be used to model an amazing variety of phenomena in mathematics, science, art and nature. It can be found in computer algorithms and seen in the branching of trees, or the spirals of a conch shell or a galaxy, but no one can really explain why.
yVG5w TIL that Python (the language) is named after Monty Python's Flying Circus and that skit references are highly encouraged in documentation.
W7eW8 TIL screwworm, a nasty parasite that can kill hosts used to be common in southern USA and Mexico. Program in place for several decades have virtually eliminated all screwworm all the way to Panama/Colombia border
l7N6G TIL Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), also known as prion diseases has no known treatment and cure and is 100% fatal
oRdVY TIL about Tigress Khairi, a wild tigress raised by an Indian conservationist couple In the 1970s, Saroj Raj Choudhury and his wife whom they considered as their own daughter. She only ate from her foster mother's hand and would sleep in their bed. Tragically, she died early due to rabies from a dog.