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TIL MIT researchers developed a one trillion frame per second camera that can capture the path of light

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p1nb TIL The Battle of Yongqiu (756 C.E.) where commander Zhang Xun needed arrows, so he ordered his troops to lower 1,000 scarecrows over the fortress wall, and retrieve the arrow laden decoys to replenish their supply.
78ENp TIL the mangaka Naoko Takeuchi (Sailor Moon) is married to another famous manga author Yoshihiro Togashi (Hunter x Hunter and Yu Yu Hakusho)
VBJ5p TIL there is 1 building, 1 ship and over 50 organisms named after David Attenborough, including a grasshopper, a Jelly and a Dinosaur
kJ0Y5 TIL about Pandanus Language which is only ever used by some New Guinea peoples when collecting Pandanus nuts
OoPe7 TIL that Switzerland has a system called direct democracy where citizens can disregard the government and hold national votes to create their own laws or even overturn those of the government.