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TIl it’s impossible to lasso Zebras because they have enough coordination to dodge the rope, a skill horses lack. This is why they’ve never been domesticated.

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WNNd TIL it has been scientifically proven that praise rather than criticism is the best way to help employees improve
16rvr TIL in the early 20th century, endurance cyclists would often take nitroglycerin and strychnine (a pesticide) as performance-enhancers, thus causing hallucinations. Cyclist Major Taylor once refused to continue a race, saying that "there is a man chasing me around the ring with a knife in his hand"
Wkjg4 TIL Planets and stars actually orbit around their common center of mass. This common center of mass is called the barycenter. As a result, the barycenter of Jupiter and the sun isn’t in the center of the sun. It’s actually just outside the sun's surface!
Wp84 TIL Two brothers in Brooklyn started their own ISP when they couldn’t get reliable service in their neighborhood.
0w1g1 TIL there's a river basin in Venezuela that gets struck by lightening over 200 times per hour for up to 10 hrs straight. It occurs more than 100 times a year and is predictable up to a few months in advanced.