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TIL that Bruce Lee had trained his moves to be so quick that he could catch grains of rice in mid-air using only chopsticks.

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P1a0w TIL the vulture population of India has fallen from 40 million to only 19,000 in just 30 years. This has been attributed to livestock being administered a drug poisonous to the bird, and has resulted in livestock formerly eaten by vultures now left to rot in fields, contaminating the water supply.
6PlQ TIL On this day 55 years ago NASA was created by Dwight D. Eisenhower
dKlr TIL: While humans only have 2 different genders, different species of slime molds and fungi have more than 500 different genders
a889Z Til that the smallest chameleon ever discovered is 21.66mm long and it's genitals make up 20% of its body length.
awNG9 TIL in 1596, Abraham Ortelius, recognized as the creator of the first modern atlas, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, noticed the shapes of continents on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean (most notably, Africa and South America) seem to fit together. He was the first to theorize the Continental Drift.