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TIL scientists caught a skink evolving. Researchers found that skinks living below a mountain in warmer climates would lay eggs. At higher climates, the cold caused the skinks to hold their eggs inside for longer until they would hatch internally for live births.

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VBd9D TIL Henrietta Wood who was enslaved in the American South until her owner, Jane Cirode, took her to Ohio in 1844. After being re-enslaved in 1853, Wood successfully sued her captor, Zebulon Ward, in 1869 and was awarded $2,500 – the largest slavery restitution in U. S. history.
7rrZb A beluga whale living in captivity with a pod of bottlenose dolphins has learned their language of whistles and clicks, scientists believe.
nex49 TIL that freestyle in swimming technically means you can swim in any style; however the front crawl is synonymous with freestyle since it is the fastest and most efficient stroke.
QJPGk TIL that in the late 1600s London was plagued by an attacker who would spank his victims with a rod, shout “Spanko!” and run away.
Bg8NW TIL A surgeon in the UK used an argon beam to brand his initials onto transplanted livers of two of his patients