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TIL elephant's brain react the same way to humans the way human brains react to puppies. That is they think we are cute.

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D1pXe TIL Daniel Radcliffe has made $94million from playing the role of Harry Potter and has hardly spent any of it.
Ypxnv TIL female kangaroos have three vaginas and two uteruses. The two side vaginas carry sperm to each uterus, while the middle vagina sends the joey to the outside world. This can allow female kangaroos to be perpetually pregnant with one joey developing in her pouch and another in the other uterus.
wLk5o TIL that the software to create the black hole in the movie 'Interstellar' is a full implementation of Einstein's equations in 40,000 lines of C++, and rendered thousands of 23-megapixel IMAX frames on a 32,000-core render farm at about 20 core-hours per frame
4XZvJ TIL that color photography has existed since 1907. The "autochrome" process used millions of microscopic red, green and blue colored potato starch grains that filtered light before it reached the emulsion on a glass plate.
4moX TIL years of dumping trash into the ocean resulted in a “glass beach” in California of smooth sea glass. So many tourists began removing the glass, there is a move to replace it.