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TIL Iran only classes three organizations as terrorist groups, and two of them are the CIA and the American Army.

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mxjQp TIL that the the concept of "zero" was invented by a 6th century Indian mathematician named Aryabhata. He also theorized on the relativity of motion, worked on the approximation of π, and correctly advocated an astronomical model in which the Earth turns on its own axis
AD6aB TIL that Humans can hear the difference between hot and cold water being poured. This is because the viscosity of water will go down as temperature increases.
gMODX TIL that a paleontologist served stew made from the neck meat of an at least 50,000-year-old bison to a dinner party of seven people in Alaska in 1984
v18LD TIL Castaway that survived a record 438 days at sea is sued ‘for eating crewmate’
6E8BY TIL Many cities enacted anti-spitting laws, that are still technically enforceable today, to combat tuberculosis in the 1800-1900’s which was killing more people than any other disease at the time.