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TIL female Crocodiles can produce offspring asexually, without the need for fertilisation from a male

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87xG TIL Punxsutawney Phil is so bad at predicting the weather, we would have more accurate predictions with a coin flip.
jN9Aj TIL Stephen Wolfram spent 30 years coming up with the programming language that combines computation and the world's knowledge
Br6vW TIL The LIGO gravitational wave detector can detect a change in a 4km beam of less than 1/10,000 the diameter of a proton.
k71e TIL, in Australia, if the note is damaged or torn, it’s value is reduced to the proportion left of the note. E.g Half a $10 note is worth $5
OGoj6 TIL about the "Moranbong band", the first all-girls DPRK-Pop band of North Korea, formed by the state, as a response to the success of South Korean music all over the world.