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TIL your brain makes decisions for you seconds before you are even aware that any decision took place.

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E1abW TIL that the Soviet Union loved Bollywood films. The values of Indian society and the USSR were very similar and the socialist country enjoyed the common rags to riches narrative. In fact, the highest grossing film of the Soviet Era was a 1982 Bollywood film called Disco Dancer.
pZge TIL Cockroaches can make group decisions. When 50 cockroaches are presented with 3 shelters that can only house 40, they’ll split evenly into two groups and leave one shelter empty.
p8M5p TIL that figs are pollinated by wasps that die inside the fig. Actually I learned this a month ago and have looked inside every fig I’ve eaten since, in the hopes of finding a dead wasp or wasp parts. No luck yet.
78Or7 TIL At one point in the 1980s, China had an estimated 400,000 Esperanto speakers, and the language was taught at a number of universities. Now there is only one Chinese college Esperanto program left
80Xb TIL a 20-year old kid successfully climbed to the summit of Mount Everest and snowboarded his way down to the base camp. He only had 4 years of snowboarding experience prior to the stunt.