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TIL Emilio Estévez almost died in quicksand as a teen.

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5Vdwn TIL Hawaii is considered the bird extinction capital of the world - Since humans arrived, 95 of 142 bird species found nowhere else in the world have become extinct in Hawaii
8e4dP TIL William B. Wilson, the first US Secretary of Labor, was born in Scotland and worked in Pennsylvania coal mines starting at the age of 9.
GYOk4 TIL that the Dani people from West New Guinea only differentiate between two colours, mili cool/dark and mola for warm/light
7mVx TIL in Tudor England, the teeth of the well-to-do frequently went black from sugar. This started a short-lived fashion trend of ladies blackening their teeth to give the impression they were rich enough to buy luxury goods
4XQ06 TIL that in 2020, the first quantum chess tournament was played. In quantum chess, there are multiple boards on which the pieces exist, and any quantum move creates a superposition of boards. In order to determine where the entangled piece is actually located, a player must make a measurement