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TIL that since 1959 there has been an ongoing Russian experiment to domesticate foxes

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wooPP TIL The Galileo spacecraft saw a mile-high, 16-mile-long curtain of lava erupt from Jupiter's moon Io
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jNrwa TIL Vikings actually arrived in Greenland at least 100 years earlier than the Inuit, who now make up about 90% of Greenland's population
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OoB7 TIL some paleo-art historians believe that ancient cave art (Lascaux, Chauvet, etc) was meant to be viewed with flickering flames as lighting, giving the images an appearance of motion. This may have been humankind’s first ever cinematic “animation”.