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TIL: Cannibalism has been recorded in over 1500 species

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kOXk5 TIL Taj Mahal turns pink at the dawn, white in noon and yellow in the dusk.
R5M9w TILL Simms Motor War Car which was the first armored car, was powered by a four-cylinder 3.3-litre[1] 16 Horsepower Cannstatt Daimler engine, giving it a maximum speed of around 9 miles per hour (14.5 km/h).
gr61y TIL According to a 2009 study, the oldest words in the English language include “I“, “we“, “who“, “two” and “three“, all of which date back tens of thousands of years. The discovery was made by tracking the divergence of ancestral words into different languages with an IBM supercomputer.
Vb6D TIL that Snoop Dogg and Cameron Diaz went to high school together and Snoop was Cameron’s weed dealer
PYj1w TIL about Emergence. Complex things happen when simple objects, rules or people interact. In the presence of a feedback loop, Emergent phenomena create Complex Systems like a Market or Fractals.