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TIL there’s a Deaf KFC in Pakistan, India and Egypt made for and handled by deaf people.

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v1WY7 TIL Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, endured many tragedies. Her mother died after giving birth to her, she was in constant debt, her 1st, 2nd, and 3rd children all died, while her husband drowned on his sailing boat. She herself passed away at 53.
R57O6 TIL that sleeping babies who are dropped from a height will spread eagle to break their fall. This is called the Palmar reflex and is evidence to show that humans were once tree-dwellers.
JY4jk TIL of a shipwreck in the River Thames of London that is full of explosives that if detonated could cause a tsunami
X0DbP TIL John Von Neumann proposed an idea of self replicating spacecraft. Robert Freitas calcd they could colonize the milky way in 500k years. That we see no evidence of them implies we are alone. Carl Sagan argued rate of replication would consume so much mass no intelligent species would build them
6E0B7 Today I learned the name of SpongeBob's most popular song is "rakehornpipe"