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TIL A town in Norway has a "seed bank" that stores over 1M seeds from all over the world in case of a nuclear event or any other global catastrophe

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p8Z8Q TIL A beekeeper in South Australia taught his Labrador to sniff out an infectious disease that wipes out bee colonies then invented a dog beekeeper suit for Bazz the Beekeeper.
Lx09 TIL AI researchers created an AI that beat the record high score for several Atari video games. The kicker? The AI learned play the games all by itself.
6ml7 TIL that there is a hardcore full contact style of Karate called “Kyokushin” which means “The Ultimate Truth” in Japanese where students fight barehanded and have to fight 100 people in a row in order to get a black belt.
oR5Jr TIL about hindsight bias—the tendency to believe, after an event, that we could have predicted its outcome with certainty. It also leads people to judge historical figures based on prevailing contemporary opinions.
mmVE TIL An Indian man single-handedly planted a 1,360-acre forest