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TIL the Indian Ocean was called "Eastern Ocean" through the mid-18th century, but the Chinese used to call it "Western Ocean"

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neyno TIL the numbers (1-10) that we use every single day were actually made by Indians and spread by Arabs who found it very easy to use and adopted it into mathematics and is actually called Arabic numerals, because Europeans discovered it via the Arabs during the 6th century. Is this common knowledge?
78oAb TIL Origins of masturbation are traced to primates 40 million years ago
OoMDg TIL that a University of Clemson student conducted an experiment in identifying ways to help turtles successfully cross roads. He placed a fake turtle in a road to observe driver behavior and disturbingly found that six percent of people deliberately went out of their way to hit the turtle.
nlL7 TIL that the U.S. and China are collaborating on developing a thorium molten salt nuclear reactor.
aXoA TIL that the U.S. is home to a single wild jaguar, and it lives in Arizona.