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9gEM TIL that the Greek mathematician Archimedes was killed during the siege of Syracuse when he refused to acknowledge his Roman captors because he was too engrossed in solving a math problem.
Wk6Nd TIL The deepest artificial point on the Earth, the Kola Borehole, has been abandoned since 2006 and only a small metal wield covers the 40,000 ft+ hole.
Oopp7 TIL that ants sleep but not in the sense we understand sleep. Research into sleep patterns of insects showed that ants have a cyclical pattern of resting periods which each nest as a group observes, lasting around eight minutes in any 12-hour period.
oBMP7 TIL The first female prisoner to be force fed was fighting for birth control
wnoJ TIL that Japanese write husband as “lord-person” and wife as “house-inside”. Also, testicles are “golden-balls”.