Today I Learned (TIL)

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TIL about Chai tea, naan bread, and double names (blog.duolingo.com)
submitted 1 year ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
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TIL that cannabis use can prevent nightmares caused by PTSD. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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TIL that the famous mime artist Marcel Marceau first used mime to help Jewish children quietly escape from occupied France in the World War II. (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 1 year ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
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TIL: During “Hell week” of Navy SEAL training, candidates are given no more than 4 hours sleep over five and a half days, all while under continual mental and physical stress (www.npr.org)
submitted 1 year ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
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TIL of the "Cave bears", a now extinct species who lived predominantly in caves throughout Europe (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 1 year ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
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TIL about the SS Eastland, which rolled over while docked in the Chicago River, killing 844 people. The incident is considered the biggest loss of life on the North American Great Lakes. (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 1 year ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
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TIL that it may be faster for humans to run on all fours. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
submitted 1 year ago by gedaliyah@lemmy.world to c/til@lemmy.ca
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The fastest human on the planet might be a quadrupedal runner at the 2048 Olympics, which may be achieved by shifting up to the rotary gallop and taking longer strides with wide sagittal trunk motion. More generally, investigation of quadrupedal running will not only result in the development of new techniques that allow biomechanists to study locomotion in natural settings but will also reveal the underlying principles of how these runners accomplish their astonishing performances.

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TIL That Zoboomafoo was the lemur's stage name, with the full name being "Jovian Marcus Kendall" (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 1 year ago by otter@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
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As an extra TIL, he has grandchildren!

The first relative of Jovian to be born after his death was his granddaughter Isabella, born on January 25, 2015

An adorable video: Lemur Grandchild of Famous Zoboomafoo Born at Duke University

On June 15, 2021, the Kratt Brothers' official TikTok account uploaded a video showing Jovian's new granddaughter Cassia, born from his daughter Gisela

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TIL birds truly are government spies... US military funds research on crows' facial recognition abilities for "enemy tracking" (www.kuow.org)
submitted 1 year ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
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TIL it's estimated that out of the 100,000 or more species of mushrooms worldwide, just over 100 are toxic. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
submitted 1 year ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
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TIL that the Vincent Price's spoken word portion of "Thriller" was written the day of recording (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 1 year ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
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TIL Japan's reasons behind their involvement in WW2 (youtu.be)
submitted 1 year ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
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TIL Brooklyn used to have a huge elephant brothel until it burned down (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Pencilnoob@lemmy.world to c/til@lemmy.ca
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephantine_Colossus

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TIL Coney Island was at one point and island and they artificially connected it to Brooklyn in the 1920s-30s (www.wikipedia.org)
submitted 1 year ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
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TIL most escaped mental patients just go home and resume their everyday activities (www.psychiatricnursing.org)
submitted 1 year ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
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TIL about the Union of the Comoros; an archipelagic country off the southeast coast of Africa with an estimated population of 1 million people. (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 1 year ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
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TIL that the House of Representatives once investigated TV quiz shows to see if they were rigged (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 1 year ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
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TIL that while Alexander the Great conquered the known world, he never attempted to attack the city-state of Sparta. (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 1 year ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
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TIL America’s Loneliness Epidemic: Nearly 40 MILLION American adults now live alone and they are 64% more likely to be depressed than their peers (alltoowhale.com)
submitted 1 year ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
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TIL that just a year after the failed invasion by the Spanish Armada, the English launch their own English Armada against Spain, which also failed. (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 1 year ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
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TIL that the New Testament in the BIBLE was written nearly 100 years after Jesus Christ ~ 70 CE (carm.org)
submitted 1 year ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
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TIL that a species of flatworm sword fights with their penises to mate (youtu.be)
submitted 1 year ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
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TIL elephants call each other by name and respond when they hear others call their name (e360.yale.edu)
submitted 1 year ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
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TIL Between 1973 and 1980, about 1000 cases of bismuth-related neurotoxicity were reported in France, resulting in a ban on bismuth compounds. (bmcneurol.biomedcentral.com)
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TIL that King Norodom Sihamoni of Cambodia is the only ruling monarch in the world to be fluent in Czech. (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 1 year ago by partybot@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca
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