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TIL about the Mandlebrot set and how fractals are created.

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VBd1G TIL Charles Luckman, an architect who designed Madison Square Garden, decided to be an architect when he was working at a newsstand as a kid and asked one woman passing by what the "pretty lights" overhead were and who placed them there. She answered it was a chandelier and that an architect decides
BrO8e TIL The world records for women's and men's discus throw is held by two East Germans. Furthermore the woman's world record, held by Gabriele Reinsch, is 76.80m making it 2.72m further than the men's world record, held by Jürgen Schult, which is 74.08m. (Note: a woman's discus is lighter 1kg vs. 2kg)
W76dY TIL that the pathogen Streptococcus Group A literally wears the "skin" of red blood cells that it's killed, to camouflage itself from the immune system.
pYxvG TIL Dr. No, not James Bond, was the first character to say "Shaken, not stirred" onscreen
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