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TIL it only took the Bow of the Titanic around 5 minutes to reach the bottom of the ocean after submerging completely

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7rQLb TIL anteaters are incapable of producing their own digestive acids. They instead use formic acid found in the stinging venom of the ants they eat, which essentially means the ants are dissolved in their own acid.
XEYj8 TIL that Ancient Greek slingers used to write "ΔΕΞΑΙ" (Dexai) meaning "take that" or "catch" on their lead sling bullets; soldiers have been writing sarcastic taunts on their weapons forever
KYygw TIL money does buy happiness; it levels off at $100,000/year for some people but not for all
xV9Yb TIL that Academy award-winner Bong Joon-ho made "Okja"(2017) after watching Sergio Arguello’s “La Parka” (“The Reaper”), a film about a slaughterhouse worker who spent 25 years killing bulls, and Nikolaus Geyrhalter's “Our Daily Bread,” a film about EU factory-farming.
e00db Every time you open Facebook, one of the world’s most influential, controversial, and misunderstood algorithms springs into action. It scans and collec ...