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TIL that birds won’t abandon their nestlings if they smell like humans

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e0K5g TIL of the Antikythera Mechanism, a 2000+ year old Ancient Greek ‘analogue computer’ that tracks/predicts astronomical positions, keeps dates for early Olympic Games and more! It used bronze, toothed gears and had multiple, individually purposed faces... similar tech wasn’t developed for 1400 years!
Z8erv TIL Because Nickelodeon’s Global GUTS featured 12 different countries, each episode had to be customized by region; with the exception of Great Britain, every international network had its own host and producer.
gnQA TIL in Mexico the act of escaping from prison is considered legal because the law recognizes that all people have a fundamental desire to be free.
mx57P TIL The 'first recorded murder victim' revealed… from 430,000 years ago. This is the earliest clear case of deliberate, lethal interpersonal aggression in the hominin fossil record, demonstrating that this is an ancient human behaviour
wbPE TIL that “Expecto Patronum” roughly translates to “I await a protector” in Latin