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TIL ZZ Top's "Eliminator" is only Billy Gibbons and not the other 2

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Jkbm TIL that webcams were invented because some computer scientists were too lazy to get up to check if their coffee was done.
NBXe TIL: In the Bible, God told Ezekiel to make cakes out of human feces.
VMPLp TIL that ‘smell dispensers’ mimicking the smell of lion shit is used to scare off deer and wild boar despite these animals having never met a lion.
JYAy8 TIL Humans are still evolving. One fast-evolving gene is human accelerated region 1 (HAR1), which is needed during brain development. In Tibet, a rapid surge in frequency of a mutated gene that increases blood oxygen content gives locals a survival advantage in higher altitudes.
jayn TIL it’s possible to have an “ice cold” soda because the added sugar lowers the temperature at which it will freeze