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TIL European food used to be spicy like Indian food

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kOZbd TIL that in some Arabic-speaking countries, the missionary position is called "the manner of serpents."
VMVL8 TIL: in 1665 Cambridge University temporarily closed down due to bubonic plague and encouraged professors to escape to the less densely populated countryside. Issac Newton returned had to work from home, and he used this time to create calculus and the theory of gravity.
kJvDW TIL that killer whales can imitate human speech. They are able to copy words such as ‘hello’ and ‘bye bye’ as well as sounds from other orcas.
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Z85lR TIL The first computer virus 'Creeper System' (1971) was an experimental self-replicating program. It was not designed to cause damage, but left a message "I'm the creeper: catch me if you can". It moved between mainframe computers on ARPANET (US Advanced Research Projects Agency Network)