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TIL brainless slime molds are capable of making complex intelligent decisions and always find the optimal path towards their goal

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lokW7 TIL that there is actually an “Old Zealand” that New Zealand is named for: It was the Dutch Maritime Province of Zeeland, located near modern Belgium.
xVQY5 TIL that the most dangerous nuclear accident in US history, the Three Mile Island incident, didn't affect the environment and had no casualties.
LXLm TIL, that in December 2011, a US court ruled rape an occupational hazard in the US armed force.
dDK79 TIL about Sati, a medieval practice among some Indians by which a recently widowed woman either voluntarily or by use of force commited suicide as a result of her husband's death. It was considered the highest expression of wifely devotion to a dead husband and was said to purge her of all her sins.
NAPP TIL some Hiroshima survivors grew “black fingernails,” which were strange rod-shaped fingernails that contained active blood vessels and bled profusely when they broke off.