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TIL that ducklings swim in a line behind their mother in order to reduce drag and propel themselves forwards

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QNa8k TIL the Emperor Nero was so esteemed in the empire’s eastern provinces that he was used as a benchmark for later rulers—Vespasian was found lacking in comparison.
8aM9K TIL that flow is the mental state in which a person is fully absorbed in an activity, therefore resulting in a loss of their sense of time and space.
J8nv TIL that the 2010 San Bruno Pipeline Explosion created a reported 1000 foot tall wall of flames and a 1.1 Earthquake. It destroyed 38 homes, killing 8 people including 44 year old Jacqueline Greig. She worked at the California Public Utilities Commission trying to replace outdated gas lines.
4Xn7R TIL about sickle (or scythe) trees, in which scythes are often found embedded, from when men hung them in trees before going to fight the Civil War
Eo17 TIL Stone Age Europeans are thought to have created brief “gifs”, by drawing two versions of an image, one over the other, on cave walls. The flickering of a torch light would “animate” the image