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TIL the Fibonacci Sequence was described by an Indian mathematician ~1200 years before Fibonacci wrote of it

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Jp51 TIL: In 2006, Mark Zuckerberg turned down a $1 billion deal with Yahoo at the age of 22 saying:“I don’t know what I could do with the money. I’d just start another social networking site. I kind of like the one I already have.”
LkOdd TIL that Disney artist and animator Ruthie Thompson, who worked on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), is still alive today at age 107.
oADA TIL toddlers in China wear ‘split pants’ or 'crotchless pants’ so they can urinate and defecate in public places with ease.
4XwBw TIL that the loudest bird in the world (the White Bellbird) can scream at 125 decibels -- about as loud as an ambulance siren. Courtship consists of the male screaming directly into the female's face.
eb4 TIL the mold in blue cheese is Penicillium