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TIL Asimov’s law states: “The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it’s to post the wrong answer.”

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Z8NRB TIL one of the Dead Sea Scroll caves, discovered in 1952, contained up to 15,000 torn fragments. One archaeologist spent his life piecing them together, but died in 1979 with the work unfinished.
Oww1 TIL White tigers are not an endangered species that need to be saved, but are the result of double recessive traits, and are severely inbred to produce more white tigers, resulting in health problems.
Z8plB TIL Aseeda is a high-energy food made from millet or cassava eaten at most meals in Darfur where ongoing genocide has had a devastating effect on food and agriculture. Aseeda is often eaten with a stew or curry containing okra
B8Ok TIL the Weather Channel admits to exaggerating the probability of rain. This is because if the correct low probability of precipitation is given, viewers may interpret the forecast as if there were no probability of rain, and then be upset if it does rain.
Y7DBB TIL that in 1966, a boy unknowingly caused an ecological crisis by smuggling and releasing three Giant African Land Snails in Miami, leading to a costly, $1 million, decade-long eradication campaign.