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TIL a baby Porcupine is called a Porcupette

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7809x TIL that, during the African humid period (late Pleistocene to early Holocene), Sahara was an open grass savannah with shrubs and trees, lakes and rivers, populated with crocodiles, frogs and baboons
yG4p TIL that a young Richard Branson had his flight to the Virgin Islands cancelled, so he chartered a private airplane. Not having enough money to do so, he picked up a small blackboard, wrote “Virgin Airlines $29” on it, sold tickets for the rest of the seats, and used that money to pay for the ride.
NXrQE TIL There is mention of existence of multiverse and multidimension in Bhagvad Gita.
ZxAQ TIL that a single Viking held back a Saxon advance at the Battle of Samford Bridge
V6xk TIL the term “Bus Factor” - The number of people in a company who need to be ‘run over by a bus’ to send the company into such disarray that it would not be able to proceed.