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TIL The Dalai Lama eats meat, for health reasons and out of respect for his hosts on his travels

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6EQNJ TIL Panthers are not actually an individual animal they are the family of all large cats. Tigers, Leopards, Jaguars etc. A black panther for example is any of these large cats with black fur
E1bP TILAfter the fall of Rome, a new illiterate Europe arose. The Irish saved civilization by copying lost books. These astonishingly decorated Irish manuscripts of the early medieval period are today the great jewels of libraries in England, France, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, Italy, and even Russia.
mXNy TIL that the Star Spangled Banner’s melody was based off a British drinking song called “To Anacreon in Heaven”.
R7xvl TIL Earths relationship with the Moon is bound unbelievably to the golden ratio. If Earths radius = 1 and the moon equals 0.272 that makes 1.272 (square root of phi). Draw a triangle with one line at a value of 1 and the second at a value of 1.272 and then hypotenuse (third line) is 1.618 or phi
7jNO TIL of the Quetzalcoatlus, named after the mesoamerican snake god, and the largest flying animal of all time standing as tall as a fully grown giraffe that could fly across continents entire continents