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TIL in Brazil, Playstation 4 will cost over $1,800.
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TIL Charles Darwin brought back a 5 year old tortoise named Harriet from Galapogas island that would later be owned by Steve Irwin. Harriet died in 2006 aged 176.
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TIL that the Latin word for sheath/scabbard is “vagina.” So whoever came up with the English word for “vagina” was making a dick joke about sheathing a sword.
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TIL Astronomer George Ellery Hale observed the sun in 1908 through a 60-foot solar telescope and documented the Zeeman effect in a sunspot. Hale’s photograph represented the first magnetic fields discovered outside of Earth
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TIL rock paper scissors is a game that goes back 2000 years to ancient Han China. The game spread throughout Asia with various characters, often animals, replacing the desk supplies we know today. In a version, a village chief is beaten by a fox, who is beaten by a hunter, who is beaten by the chief
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TIL Many investigators believed that some if not all the crew of The Challenger disaster survived the explosion unharmed and were conscious for the full 2 minutes 45 seconds it took for the Crew Cabin to return to Earth, before being killed by collision force when the module hit the sea.