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TIL that Portugal submitted an application to honour Magellan's circumnavigation route via the World Heritage List

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loppa TIL when all remaining California condors were captured to ensure their survival, they were de-loused. In doing so, conservationists killed all remaining individuals of a species of louse (Colpocephalum californici) that lived exclusively on the California condor, inadvertantly causing an extinction
KDQ6 TIL that Al Capone’s WWI draft card claimed he was a “paper cutter”
Gwjj TIL The first computer programmer was a woman named Ada Lovelace, who in 1842 wrote and published an algorithm to calculate Bernoulli Numbers on Charles Babbage’s analytical machine.
XOrk TIL: There is a Canadian car manufacturing company that produces a cheap electric car. There’s one catch, it can’t be sold in Canada
kJrQm TIL that the entire state of Michigan was poisoned in 1973