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TIL researchers documented 34 cases of wild orcas offering food to humans, including fish, birds and stingrays.
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TIL Arthur Conan Doyle wrote medical novels named “The Stark Munro Letters” about Dr. Cullingworth, a brilliant doctor but erratic and unpredictable, based on his own early years as a doctor with ...
(www.arthur-conan-doyle.com)
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TIL that after WWII, hay fever became common in Japan due to reforestation policies. The types of trees planted produced a lot of pollen while they were mature.
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TIL: Major General Jesse L. Reno of the American Civil War's son, Jesse W. Reno was one of the first inventors of the escalator
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TIL Several Mayan skeletons have been discovered with jade or turquoise stones embedded in their teeth! The practice appears to have been common between 250 BC and 900 AD and must certainly have h...
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TIL the fastest ocean liner ever built was the SS United States, which operated from 1952 to 1969. Its first voyage from New York City to the UK took three days, averaging 41 mph (66 km/h), and th...
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TIL that Neanderthals have contributed more DNA to modern East Asians than modern Europeans
(academic.oup.com)
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TIL that sleeping in space can be deadly without good ventilation.
(www.sleep.com)
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TIL Biddy Mason (1818-1891) came to California as a slave in 1851. She won her freedom in court and became one of the first black women to own land in Los Angeles. As the city grew the value of he...
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TIL 19th-century British table sets feature a third condiment shaker, and nobody in modern times seems to know for sure what it held.
(www.scienceforums.net)
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TIL that horses have no muscles in their lower legs, so their hooves act as "second hearts". A horse that can't move risks blood pooling in its hooves, which can cause tissue death starting from t...
(horses.extension.org)
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til that in 1999 nasa lost a 125 million dollar mars climate orbiter because one engineering team used metric units while another used imperial units causing the spacecraft to enter the wrong traj...
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TIL that the Ojibwe language, spoken across the Great Lakes region, has no gendered nouns like many Romance or Germanic languages. Instead it categorizes nouns as animate (tree, feather) or inanim...
(www.native-languages.org)
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TIL that a single lightning strike can heat the air around it to about 30,000°C, hotter than the surface of the sun
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TIL After Francis I exchanged himself in spanish captivity in 1526 with his two sons, aged 7 and 8, he annuled everything he signed in exchange for his release, but the kids remained in captivity ...
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TIL that Pac-Man earned $1 billion in quarters in its first year. In 1982 it made $6 billion, more than all Vegas casinos and US movie theaters combined that year
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TIL during WWII, Britain hid its wealth 3 floors under Montreal's Sun Life building. The vault had microphone alarms, walls made of abandoned railway steel, and a door needing 2 blind, simultaneou...
(acresofsnow.ca)
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TIL Mexico since the conquest has had 130 heads of state and only one of them knew how to speak Nahuatl, the dominant indigenous language: Maximilian of Habsburg. Maximilian was an Austrian archdu...
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TIL that the first animals in space were fruit flies, sent by the US on February 20, 1947, along with corn seeds, to study the effects of cosmic radiation on living things. The mission was success...
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TIL less than 20% of Medal of Honor recipients received their award posthumously
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TIL Priceline.com once tried to let people bid on gas and groceries. It collapsed in 2000 after burning through $200–300 million, and the stock fell from $104 to $5.81 in under a year.
(www.cbsnews.com)
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TIL that New Zealand has the highest average prices for both cocaine and LSD (as of 2019)
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TIL that during the Falklands War, the BBC announced the pending attack on Goose Green by the 2nd Battalion of the Parachute Regiment the day before the attack.
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TIL that the largest city in the world that's inaccessible by road is Iquitos, Peru. It's only accessible by air and by the Amazon river. Gustave Eiffel designed Casa de Fierro there, but the clai...
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TIL Food cravings during pregnancy do not generally correlate with maternal nutritional imbalances, except for one specific case. Compulsive cravings for non-food items like chalk, rocks, and ice ...
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