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TIL scientists were able to grow a plant from a seed buried by an Ice Age squirrel 32,000 years ago.

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RWM8 TIL that the Taipei 101 skyscraper uses a 728 ton steel tuned mass damper (basically a giant pendulum) to counter motion of the building since it is so close to a fault line.
ZRbp TIL that the premise for the game GTA was stumbled upon by testers through a glitch during the creation of a game called Race'n'Chase. The glitch opened up the linear gameplay of Race'n'Chase to an open world with “non-stop crashing”. Developers abandoned Race'n'Chase and turned it into GTA.
lAYG TIL lab tests have shown that cats don’t love you the way dogs do. Tests has shown that a dog releases Oxytocin (love hormone) in their brains at MUCH higher levels when compared to cats. A dog releases upwards to 60% while a cat releases 12%.
LgNV TIL a 12 year old boy was tried as an adult and sentenced to 25 years in prison after following a 15 year old boy and helping him kill the 15 year old’s stepdad.
Lk6jv TIL that a “white elephant gift exchange” takes its name from the legend of the King of Siam gifting rare albino elephants to those who displeased him because the upkeep costs would financially ruin them.