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TIL that there are ‘rainbow mountains’ in China, where the layers of rock are so vividly colored due to mineral deposits that they look like a painting.

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Ree9 TIL The tarantula hawk stings and paralyzes a tarantula, drags the specimen to a brooding nest, and lays a single egg on the spider’s abdomen. The wasp larva hatches, creates a hole in the spider’s abdomen, and enters to feed, avoiding vital organs for as long as possible to keep the spider alive.
E1Plp TIL of Wait Calculation, a dilemma stating that during the millennia long trip to another star system, humanity would easily find ways to increase travel speed greatly, meaning any new expeditions would arrive much earlier. Therefore, no-one would risk wasting their lives on such a meaningless trip.
VB5Q8 TIL it was the Incans who originally made the original recipe of peanut butter, and Marcellus Edison who made the peanut butter we know and love today. George Washington Carver did not create peanut butter.
XLZQ TIL CDs are 74 minutes long because the president of Sony wanted to listen to Beethovens 9th symphony without interruption
vObK TIL that Alberta, Canada is a nearly rat-free province, and when a homeowner finds one it makes the news