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TIL that when Martin Strel swam over 3000 miles down the length of the Amazon River, a boat assisting him poured rancid blood overboard to distract the pirhanas

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8JQZ TIL the direction of Earth’s magnetic field reverses every 200,000 - 300,000 years
KYbOE TIL Evolution can occur through several avenues of genetic variation- mutations, sex & recombination, gene flow, and epigenetics
QJO1L TIL of Herman Francis Mark, an Austrian scientist and son of a Jew, who chose to flee Austria in 1938. He clandestinely bought platinum wire, worth roughly $50,000, which he bent into coat hangers while his wife knitted covers so that the hangers were able to be taken out of the country
QJOQd TIL using "pseudo profound bullshit titles" for artwork such as "Deaf Echo" made the artwork seem more profound regardless of the art quality.
XEM58 TIL that in 1935 the U.S. 23rd Bomb Squadron dropped twenty 600-pound bombs in the path of a volcano’s lava flow, thus saving the city of Hilo, Hawaii by diverting the lava away from the city.