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TIL that abracadabra is actually a Hebrew (or Aramaic) phrase meaning “I create what I speak”

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b9Wpj TIL the Indian civilization dates to '7500 BC to 6200 BC' according to recent findings, making it as old as Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations.
KOmva TIL sharks are called "swimming noses" because 2/3 of their brains are olfactory lobes. They can smell blood in water at 1 part per million from hundreds of meters away. But their sense of taste isn't linked to their nose and is not as developed, so often they bite once then decide not to kill.
lGDK TIL The USA Conducted an Experiment in 1964 Where They Gathered 3 Young Physics Students, and Gave Them a Salary, and All Publicly Available Documents on Nuclear Weapons, and Told Them to Build an Atomic Bomb. They succeeded.
XVAD TIL that during World War 2, penicillin was scarce, so it was common to collect urine from patients to recycle the penicillin.
RrO7 TIL that during WWI, at one point skirmishing Russian and German forces had to declare a temporary truce to fight off a sudden onslaught of wolves that were making regular raids on trenches. The joint operation was successful.