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TIL that it is extremely difficult to measure (short) time scales

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4kldo TIL that the first 2 U.S. serial killers were river pirates.
9YVX6 TIL Octopuses live only 3-5 years, so they have limited time for accumulating information. Some researchers say that if octopuses had lived more, they, and not humans, would have been the dominant intelligence on Earth.
neMP7 TIL Science explaining role of luck in success ( veritasium).
Oog54 TIL Al Capone came up with the idea of expiration dates on milk bottles while trying to find a legal way to fund his grand lifestyle once the prohibition era was over.
xK9B TIL That in the mid 80’s the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus surgically attached horns to goats skulls and billed them as “living unicorns”. When they came under fire from animal rights activist, their argument was “They magically appeared.”