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TIL A frog in Ecuador has the ability to shape-shift and change skin textures in minutes

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6EVVm TIL: 72 year old US Senator John Stennis of Mississippi was mugged and shot twice in front of his home in 1973. Despite being severely wounded he managed to walk into his home and call an ambulance. He would live another 22 years
wPEM TIL there is a unit called the “Manhatten distance” (or city block distance), describing the distance of two points when you, rather than measuring the direct linear connection, sum up the length of the left/right and the up/down movement, as if you walk along blocks in a big city.
4kD4b TIL that there is an international standard for making tea. It's not for making the best tea or how tea should be made, but simply to make a cup of tea that can easily be reproduced by anybody with the right equipment at any time.
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