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TIL: That due to the reduced gravity on the moon humans could walk on water.

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d8V9j TIL aircraft compasses are not always accurate. While flying, compasses will point towards the north when accelerating, and towards the south when decelerating, known as magnetic dip. The effect is reversed in the southern hemisphere.
EgQWx TIL Helen Keller was as a cofounder of the ACLU
aMrb TIL that in 1958 after six-year-old white girl Sissy Marcus playfully kissed seven-year-old black boy David Simpson as nine-year-old James Thomson -also black- stood by, both boys were arrested for “molestation” and sentenced to reform school until they reached the age of twenty-one.
XdaD TIL of Niihau, the 7th largest island of Hawaii which is completely privately owned by one family who seeks to maintain it as it was purchased in 1864 for $10,000 in gold, including the native population.
16vBV TIL an adult frog sheds its skin once a week. After removing the old, dead skin, the frog normally eats it. If they don't shed, the skin would harden and the animal would be unable to get an adequate amount of oxygen, as they breathe through their skin.