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TIl that curly hair gave early humans an evolutionary advantage and made our brains bigger

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a87JJ TIL Arachnoids are large spiderweb-like structures of unknown origin that have been found only on the surface of Venus and can span 200 km
OoDOa TIL that ants can literally fall from any height without dying.
X0Mdr TIL that the highest score in a football match was a Madagascar championship match. 149-0, and 148 of those were own goals
epB65 TIL Aristarchus of Samos in the 3rd Century BCE was the first to present the model of the Sun as the center of our Solar system and also placed the other known planets in correct order of distance from the sun. He also correctly surmised that stars were other far distant suns.
gxjy TIL British gunboats were having problems being lit on fire during World War II, so they designed a special diesel engine with the cylinders in a DELTA configuration. The engine worked so well, it is still in service 70 years later, and is half the size of its competitors. But just a 5th the weight.