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TIL Blue Manakin birds perform complex group dancing routines

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7raRP TIL that the 'Frisbee' was named so after a local pie company 'Frisbie Pies' sold many to students at the local college who used to finish the pie and throw the empty tray around for fun yelling 'Frisbee' in case anyone nearby was in danger of being hit.
jNw6n TIL Around 50% of the protein you consume comes from the Haber-Bosch process. Without this process, we would've never been able to maintain our current population's food intake.
Y7VbP TIL about the Pit of Despair, an apparatus used in widely-condemned experiments that isolated young monkeys in a dark, smooth tank with sloped sides and a curved base. The monkeys were left isolated and hopeless in the dark for months, supposedly to induce and study depression.
JYvbv TIL Randy Johnson nicknamed his slider "Mr. Snappy"
alWN TIL that one theory on why we live in three dimensions is that when the Big Bang occurred, only 3 of the 9 spatial dimensions expanded infinitely.