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todayilearned
Mar 23, 2020
TIL that a fully-preserved dinosaur tail, still covered in delicate feathers, was found. It is 99 million years old.
birds
dinosaurs
feathers
fossils
hukawng valley
myanmar (burma)
paleontology
scientists
todayilearned
Feb 04, 2020
TIL that a team of scientists have had to recalculate Australia's latitude and longitude coordinates, as the country is on the fastest moving continental tectonic plate in the world. GPS data was out by more than 1.5 metres.
gps
latitude
longtitude
scientists
todayilearned
Dec 27, 2019
TIL African is extraordinarily genetically diverse. An Ethiopian person will likely have less in common genetically with a Sudanese person than they do with people from other continents.
anthropology
dna
genetics
human ancestors
human geography
human migration
humans
paleoanthropology
people and culture
scientists
todayilearned
Oct 23, 2019
TIL in the late 19th century, the Sears catalog used to offer a heroin kit, two vials of heroin included, for only $1.50 - slightly less than 50 2019 dollars.
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sears catalog sold heroin
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surgery
syringe
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thomas hager
time of the american civil war
times
turn of the century
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veterans
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todayilearned
Oct 01, 2019
TIL that Stephen Hawking once made a bet of $100 with Gordon Kane that physicists would not discover the Higgs boson. After losing the bet he lamented the discovery, saying it made physics less interesting.
black holes
extraterrestrial life
physics
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software
stephen hawking
todayilearned
Jun 29, 2019
TIL that in the the Milky Way Galaxy alone, there are at least 25 billion places where life could exist.
earth
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light
planets
scientists
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space
space exploration
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stars
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