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TIL that an organization called food for the poor has a CEO named Robin Mahfood

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X4yj TIL that there’s a sculpture in front of CIA Headquarters that depicts an encryption that still hasn’t been completely solved yet…
7lvM TIL that in December 2012 a complex systems scientist walked up to the podium at the American Geophysics Union to present a paper. The paper was titled, “Is Earth Fucked?” His answer was: “Yeah. Pretty much.”
e0gxg TIL that the Berber people of North Africa and the Sami people of northern Scandinavia share a close mitochondrial DNA link. Researchers found that the two groups diverged about 9000 years ago, just after the last ice age.
d0eE TIL Tibetan monks sleep sitting up and even have a special “box” for it (pic in article)
nWrjb TIL: Seagulls are an endangered species with fewer than 100,000 in NZ