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TIL kangaroo rats are so adapted to desert life that they can go their whole lives without a single drink of water.

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eYWJ TIL that Volkswagen won an Ig Nobel prize for “ for solving the problem of excessive automobile pollution emissions by automatically, electromechanically producing fewer emissions whenever the cars are being tested.”
16wQ8 TIL the high five was invented in 1977
p86de TIL Classical Greece wasn't filled with pure white marble everything. The statues and ruins we see today were actually painted in all kinds of vivid colors that were just stripped bare back to their original white marble by time.
JnYj TIL there is a monument in Georgia with an instruction to genocide, with an unmarked time capsule, and no one knows who erected it in 1979.
R7dD6 TIL of Le Viandier, a recipe collection credited to Guillaume Tirel, a master cook to Charles V, the oldest extant version of which is from the late 13th/early 14th century. It contains the first detailed description of an entremet, small dishes served between courses we'd refer to as dessert now.