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TIL that New Zealand’s two main islands (the North Island and the South Island) didn’t have official names until 2009

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Vl4B TIL That no one knows who invented the fire hydrant, because its patent was destroyed in a fire.
grx08 TIL While other primates are furry, human skin is exposed to the elements. It’s not that we’re ‘naked’ – our hair is just really short over much of our bodies. In the warm places where our ancestors lived, evaporation of sweat from exposed skin was a great benefit in cooling our entire bodies.
JYWLk TIL that child actor Bobby Driscoll (Peter Pan and other Disney classics) is buried as an unknown vagrant in a mass grave on Hart island (NYC), and was only identified after his mother, who thought he was still alive, matched his fingerprints to a burial record.
4Egg TIL there is cavity in the hand called the Anatomical Snuff Box
epaED Til Hubble’s advanced technology was applied in many areas from medicine to wildlife conservation. One of more notable is helping digital mammography biopsy system image breast tissue more clearly and efficiently than before.