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TIL a man was charged two DUIs at the same time, an hour apart because of daylight savings.

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5VLyk TIL that Brian Acton, co-founder of WhatsApp, left Facebook in 2017 over a dispute on WhatsApp monetization and claims he was coached to mislead EU regulators about data merging. In 2018, he supported #DeleteFacebook, saying it was the right time as pressure mounted on the company.
R7pl1 TIL that beavers build dams because they hate the sound of running water. A researcher set up speakers that played the audio of running water in multiple beaver populated areas, and the next morning found them to be covered in layers of sticks and mud.
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D1DGv TIL Penicillin is an accidental discovery. Fleming returned from a two-week vacation to find that a mold had developed on an accidentally contaminated staphylococcus culture plate. Upon examination of the mold, he noticed that the culture prevented the growth of staphylococci.
DQNmj TIL Rubbing from the Nestorian Stele. Erected in 781, the bilingual Chinese/Syriac text describes the arrival of Christianity from the Eastern Roman Empire in 635, and the early history of Christianity in Tang China