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VBZE4 TIL that the “Ivy League” is officially an athletic conference, and that the academic/social prestige associated with these schools is, technically, secondary
LEYd TIL elephants often bury dead or sleeping humans or aid them when they are hurt
b9654 TIL Nearly 8% of the human genome is virus DNA. Meaning some of our ancestors survived a virus but still carry the DNA it inserted.
aLLA TIL the metabolic rate of a dormant scorpion can be lower than that of a root vegetable like a carrot or beet.
rmrx TIL That in the early 1970s Chile experimented with a centralised computer network that would provide live economic data for “managing resources, detecting problems before they arise, and to experiment with economic policies”. It was destroyed when Pinichet’s regime took power before completion.