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TIL Charles Darwin ate alot of animals. Even a rare bird he was seeking, but only noticed this afterwards.

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9YQw7 TIL Ferrari only produced 400 of their iconic 2005 Ferrari Enzo. The first 399 were sold in the public market, with the final 400th being gifted to Pope John Paul II which was then auctioned off for charity for $6M to help the victims of the 2005 tsunami in Southeast Asia.
l105 TIL Russian scientists were able to bring back an arctic flower, extinct for 32,000 years, from a seed that’s been borrowed by an ice age squirrel
VBG8B TIL That in the original version of The Hobbit, Gollum willingly surrendered the Ring to Bilbo as reward for winning a Riddle Game. However, as Tolkien conceived LOTR, he realized that the Ring's grip on Gollum would never permit him to give it up willingly. Bilbo steals the ring in the 2nd edition.
WEAL TIL that Bruce Lee had trained his moves to be so quick that he could catch grains of rice in mid-air using only chopsticks.
epVQn TIL that the Embassy of Spain to the Holy See is the oldest embassy in the world. It was created in 1480 by King Ferdinand the Catholic. It is housed in the same building (Palace of Spain) since 1647, and the square in Rome where the palace is located takes the name from it (Piazza di Spagna)