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TIL that Jane Goodall has been researching chimpanzees for 60 years.

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RaRQ TIL People with little or no skill suffer from a false feeling of superiority, this “Dunning-Kruger effect” was originally noted by Charles Darwin and its modern proponents won a Nobel prize for its documentation.
N7ne1 TIL That Mad Max: Fury Road had filming moved from the Broken Hill region of NSW to Namibia after unusual rainfall caused the desert landscape to bloom with wild flowers.
YpA7v TIL about the Living National Treasures of Japan - individuals and groups certified by the government because they are masters of a traditional art or craft that is in danger of being lost. As a reward, they receive a small amount of money from the government every year.
EWAX TIL Richard Stallman, a software freedom activist and computer programmer, and creator of a good portion of GNU/Linux, has 15 honorary doctorates
vALj TIL that NASA is performing experiments on a technology that they hope will lead to a real “warp drive” that will allow a spaceship to arrive at another star system in far less time than it would take to get there at the speed of light.