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TIL Jaguars have twice the bite strength of a tiger
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TIL The philosopher Mencius moved three times in his childhood as his mom tried to find a suitable environment. When they lived by a cemetery, his mom found him performing burials. After living by the market, he pretended to be a merchant. In the end, his mom moved him to a school and he studied
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TIL the earliest recorded use of LOL as an initialism was for "little old lady" in the 1960s. During the Apollo mission, ferrite cores were used as transformers and acted as either a binary one or zero. The LOLs created the required software by weaving together sequences of one and zero cores.
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TIL when threatened, sea cucumber eject its organ, liquefy itself into a puddle and slip into rock cracks. They solidify the body it later when it’s safe.
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TIL: The inventor of the Lava Light, an accountant, originally didn't envision his product associating with groovy psychedelic hippie culture. An ad for them in the straight-laced American Bar Association Journal pitched an "executive" desk version mounted on a walnut base beside a ballpoint pen.
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TIL Penal colony of Australia had its own penal colony on Tasmania for people who reoffended after being sent there