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TIL that crabs have evolved independently at least five times

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Lk0Mm TIL that the game Rock Paper Scissors is as old as the Han dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD). It was also known in Japan as Slug Frog Snake.
5YZEk TIL Tea clippers used to race to be the first to deliver their cargo, the price being to sell their cargo at a premium
Z8R8Y TIL That Victor Harry Feguer, the last person to be put to death in the state of Iowa, requested his last meal consisting of just an unpitted olive. The seed found in his stomach implied that he had hoped for an olive tree to sprout forth at his burial site
b9MlQ TIL that clonally transmissible cancers exist. These cancers can be transmitted between individuals without the involvement of an infectious agent (unlike e.g. HPV-associated cervical cancer). They are very rare in humans but more common in dogs, Tasmanian devils and clams.
bB4a TIL Termites eat through wood two times faster when listening to rock music