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TIL the world's first Arctic explorer was a Greek sailor from Marseille in 325 BC. He also left us the first written references to Britain and Scotland — and came home to almost nobody believing him.

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dDe0r TIL that in 1962, JFK said there is nothing "more unfortunate than to have soft, chubby, fat-looking children."
kJZw1 TIL that Australia is 1.2% larger than the Contiguous US (the 48 states excluding Alaska and Hawaii)
m4mo TIL Prescott Bush (Grandfather of George W.) was involved in a plot to overthrow the U.S. government and replace it with a fascist dictatorship in 1933.
m105o TIL that Mary Shelley, author of the foundational science fiction work "Frankenstein", was also the daughter of legendary women's rights activist Mary Wollstonecraft.
ep7n5 TIL Scientists studying visual perception superglued patches on cuttlefish to Velcro 3D glasses on them. The cuttlefish kept the glasses on long enough for the research team to determine that they have stereo vision (like humans).