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TIL: the speed of light can be slowed down
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TIL that there is a herd of nearly 40 hippos living freely in Colombia after the private zoo of Pablo Escobar was abandoned and its 4 original hippos reproduced.
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TIL Dennis Ritchie, co-creator of UNIX and creator of the C programming language, died a week after Steve Jobs
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TIL during the filming of "Trading Places", Aykroyd's and Murphy's presence on the floor distracted the active traders and over $6 billion of trading had to be halted
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TIL that in 2017 someone (the Ukrainian authorities blame Russia) used a drone carrying a thermite grenade to blow up an ammunition dump, setting off a billion dollars worth of explosives.
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TIL About the Residence Time concept, which is the average time a water molecule spends in a given water reservoir.