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TIL: That in 1959 a Russian zoologist named Dmitri Belyaev started a investigation into domestication (using Foxes) that is basically ongoing to this day.

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wKMJ TIL Physicist Richard Feynman memorized pi up to the 762nd digit, where there are six 9’s in a row, just so he could joke, “…9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9 and so on…”. For this reason, this sequence of 9’s is named the Feynman Point.
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