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TIL That the number zero was invented in India more than a thousand years ago

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gMRGL Til that Barrow in Alaska remains in daylight for 84 days in Summer and dark for 67 days in Winter. It even experiences a midnight Sun!
p8l54 TIL there was a Trigun movie released in 2010 as a follow-up to the anime series. It made less than $1 million USD throughout its theatrical run on ten screens.
Oo9aY TIL of the "Giant Panda Kindergarten" in China where 18 cubs celebrated their 1st birthday in 2019. Researchers mistakenly thought pandas liked solitary life & kept each panda in a tiny den; the pandas got depressed & didn't want to mate; this changed when pandas were allowed to hang out together.
VMBVQ TIL fingerprints come in 3 types (loops, whorls & arches) and can be sorted by the Henry Classification System.
yQy9J TIL that chemistry graduate student Barry Kidston gave himself Parkinson's disease after ingesting a compound he synthesized for a legal high. An impurity he neglected is toxic to dopamine neurons, which is responsible for the effect. He was treated, but died of a cocaine overdose 18 months later.