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TIL that muscles, which we eat, start out as parasites
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TIL an unauthorized Greenpeace publicity stunt timed to coincide with global climate talks in Peru may have destroyed part of the 1500 year-old Nazca Line Hummingbird tracing. The group failed to take proper measures to protect the area, according to their own photos.
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TIL that Persian is a pluricentric language, because it has 3 codified standard forms: "Tajik" -spoken in Tajikistan and partially Uzbekistan, "Dari" - spoken in Afghanistan and "Farsi" - spoken in Iran.
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TIL that the average worker bee forages only about 4-5 days before dying. They take multiple foraging trips per day and usually die after flying around 500 total miles.
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TIL First Computer Bug was an Actual Bug
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TIL that on August 16, 1858, Queen Victoria sent a message of approximately 100 words to U.S. President James Buchanan. It took nearly seventeen hours to transmit by Morse code through about 2,500 miles of cable at a depth of often more than two miles.