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TIL that muscles, which we eat, start out as parasites

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lAl7 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.
GAmgg 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.
JYk0Q 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.
epZQb TIL First Computer Bug was an Actual Bug
GY6LG 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.