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TIL - Somebody designed a candle that recycles itself

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OWng TIL: Wolves being reintroduced into Yellowstone in 1995 caused regrowth of many populations and even saved the rivers from erosion .
Z86DD TIL a physics paper published in 2015 had 5,154 authors, breaking the record for largest number of contributors to a single research article. Only the first nine pages of the paper describe research on the size of the Higgs boson, while the remaining 24 pages list the authors and their institutions.
9xwX TIL: In prehistoric New Zealand, Eagles with 3m wingspans preyed on humans.
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