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TIL there is a mathematical formula that suggests that the emergence of life is inevitable

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5ZaR TIL there’s a Mediterranean plant that appears to spontaneously combust (i.e., a burning bush)
KYZR6 TIL Amazon Japan first introduced Black Friday in 2019 by giving discounts on black-colored items
7PZL TIL Kung Fu expert in China beat up mob of 50 people trying to evict him.
kJ195 TIL that Cancun did not exist as a city until the 1970s, with Isla Cancun having only three inhabitants who were caretakers of a coconut plantation
5Yey9 TIL that during the Cold War, Nikita Khrushchev said to Mao Zedong that “Berlin is the testicles of the West. Every time I want to make the West scream, I squeeze on Berlin.”