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TIL: There Are Only 25 Blimps on Earth

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M74jW TIL deep within the Earth lies the remains of a planet that crashed into it billions of years ago.
0wEbM TIL Rabbits can smell their dead relatives in the feces of predators
BrMyD TIL that the most accurate simulation of the human brain ever has been carried out, but a single second’s worth of brain activity took one of the world’s largest supercomputers 40 minutes to calculate.
W9RL TIL that the neurons of a dead squid in a japanese dish called odori-don are activated by soy sauce, causing it to “dance”
oR8dR TIL that three of the five likely oldest rivers on earth are in Appalachia