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TIL the instinctive, irrational urge to jump from high places is normal, and called l'appel du vide.

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kOpbm TIL that panthers are not their own species, but rather " melanistic colour variant of any Panthera, particularly of the leopard (P. pardus) in Asia and Africa, and the jaguar (P. onca) in the Americas."
xNpb TIL that one olive tree can produce around four liters of oil every year for hundreds of years.
l76N1 TIL that the 1986 Buick Riviera was the first car to feature a touch screen. Here’s how in-car screens have grown through history
klme TIL that Columbian drug cartels have custom-designed fibreglass submarines to smuggle cocaine. They’re designed to carry about 4 people and are extremely hard to detect.
DmYg TIL Bill Nye and his neighbour, Arrested Development star Ed Begley Jr., are in an ongoing competition to see who can have the “lowest carbon footprint”