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TIL that nuclear waste can be turned into glass.
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TIL that a female zebra shark held in captivity in Australia gave birth asexually in 2017. It is only the third documented case of a vertebrate of any species switching its reproductive strategy from sexual to asexual. Sperm storage was ruled out when genetic testing was done on the offspring.
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TIL that the word palindrome spelled backwards is emordnilap and an emordnilap is actually a word that, when spelled backwards, makes a new word (ex: desserts & stressed). So basically, "emordnilap palindrome" is an emordnilap palindrome.
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TIL that a man --Dharampal Singh, was stoned to death by monkeys in India. The animals had collected bricks from a dilapidated building nearby and reportedly pelted him with the bricks from a tree. His family lodged a formal complaint about the incident at Doghat police station in Uttar Pradesh.
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TIL in 1784, Japanese sailor Chunosuke Matsuyama and 43 others were stranded on a Pacific Island after a shipwreck and eventually perished. Before his own death, Matsuyama threw a message in a bottle into the ocean. Over 150 years later the bottle washed ashore in the same town Matsuyama was born.
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TIL that in Chinese/Peking Opera, a character wearing armor with flags on his/her back was meant to represent a general leading an army. Two such characters fighting on stage meant that a battle between two armies was taking place.