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TIL every fig has a dead wasp in it.
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TIL Ryan Gosling was cast in the movie “The Notebook” because the director was looking for someone that was “not handsome” and “not cool”.
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TIL In 2009 Jim Barksdale completed a nearly straight 300 million dollar fiber-optic link between Chicago and NYC. By shaving 3ms off the previously fastest connection, Barksdale can charge 8 to 10 times the going rate because any trading algorithm not operating on his network is at a disadvantage.
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TIL that since the MESSENGER probe intentionally crashed onto the surface of Mercury at mission end last year, we now have man-made objects on all four planets inside the asteroid belt.
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TIL that ants will defend other creatures such as caterpillars from the parasitoid wasp, as the parasites actions would endanger the relationship that the ants have themselves with caterpillars.
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TIL that an older woman of 70, Chau Smith, ran 7 marathons on 7 continents in 7 days