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16Z67 TIL of the Polynesian legend of Mahuika – goddess of fire and the grandmother of Māui. She married Auahi-roa (a comet) and their children were the fingernails of fire on Mahuika's hand. Years later, Māui retrieved the fingernails and planted them in the trees used for making fire.
9wP87 TIL New Zealand is only 6% of an underwater continent of nearly 5 million square kilometres (two-thirds the size of Australia, and larger than western Europe). That continent separated from the supercontinent of Gondwana between 85 million and 60 million years ago.
oBEQK TIL that before buses were introduced, school students in rural areas of New Zealand traveled up to 18 miles to school on horseback and stored their horse at school