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TIL It's possible to bring back some extinct animals. In 2016, some ecologists from UCSB advised which species should be revived to best impact Earth's ecosystems. The species that made the cut: Christmas Island pipistrelle bat, Reunion giant tortoise & Lesser stick-nest rat.

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x6EBb TIL Nichelle Nichols wanted to leave Star Trek for Broadway and informed the producer. That weekend, she met Martin Luther King who said she was a role model and Star Trek was the only show he watched his kids stay up to watch. She changed her mind, and when the producer learned why, he teared up
60wl TIL an island, located between Australia and New Caledonia, was charted on maps for over a century until a crew of scientists sailed to the location and found it didn’t exist.
M5WW TIL When hot water freezes faster than cold water, the effect is called “the Mpemba Effect”. It’s named after Tanzanian Erasto Mpemba who was originally ridiculed for bringing it up in class after noticing his warmer ice cream mix was freezing before the cooler batch
0n1y TIL of the Russian “Firehose of Propaganda” Model: Overwhelm your enemy with lies from multiple sources, so people will see the lies first, thus winning the first impression. Multiple sources reinforce the same lies, all before real journalists can even find the facts.
oRBQW TIL After France's surrender to Germany, the French Navy and over seas colonies remained under French directive. The government was moved to Vichy in the south, where an occupation 'Free Zone' was established that encompassed half of the county. This zone was ruled as an autocracy by the French.