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TIL that it is custom in Indian culture to give gifts in amounts like $101 and $501, especially at weddings. This is to support the idea that, like the gift, the couple is indivisable

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7rE7p TIL that a clause that contains another clause is called a matrix clause. A clause within a clause is called a matrix clause, not inception clause. Matrix clause! SMDH
PY6nG TIL that due to the scarcity of food in their natural habitat, newborn wild Axolotls will resort to cannibalism and eat their siblings' limbs. The victims still have chances to survive though, since the Axolotl can regenerate not only limbs but major organs such as gills at any stage in its life.
ddkr TIL Brazil has replaced almost 42 percent of its gasoline needs with sugarcane ethanol – making gasoline the alternative fuel in the country.
Y7VMv TIL BioLab Chemical also had a massive fire in 2004
WkGY4 TIL that sponges are living animals and were the first animals to diverge from the evolutionary tree from all animals' common ancestor, making them the sister group of all other animals.