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TIL: The incredibly unrealistic looking computer system in Jurassic Park is, in fact, a real thing.

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v19nD TIL that during the 1908 Olympics, marathon runners, including the winners, drank champagne, brandy, or strychnine cocktails, in the belief that it would provide energy. In 1924, the Paris games provided wine at rehydration stations.
X0Mjk TIL Woodpeckers have two toes facing forward and two toes facing backward to help them cling to trees. They’re called zygodactile feet.
DQX4P TIL Childhood trauma is the template for addiction—any addiction. All addictions are attempts to escape the deep pain of the hurt child, attempts temporarily soothing but ultimately futile.
DDdV TIL scientists in Israel planted 2000 years old seeds from an extinct date palm species and successfully grew a sapling
5Vrxk TIL about the "boiling frog", an apologue describing a frog being slowly boiled alive. The story is often used as a metaphor for the inability or unwillingness of people to react to or be aware of sinister threats that arise gradually rather than suddenly.