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TIL red blood cells don’t have mitochondria or a nucleus

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wLDNP TIL that the Mayan people constructed the temples in a way that a handclap at the base of the temple produces an echo that sounds like the call of the sacred Quetzal bird. For them the bird was a messenger of the gods.
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