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TIL that a Florida man recognized himself in the background in the iconic cover of Abbey Road

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XEXaX TIL that the ‘Father of American Gynecology’, and former President of the American Medical Association James Marion Sims conducted experiments on enslaved women without anesthesia to hone his surgical techniques.
gMGrb TIL scientists estimate around 2.5 billion T. Rex lived over the species' ~127,000 generations. At any given time, around 20,000 individuals walked the earth.
e0Lak TIL about Cat Island. The cats were originally introduced to combat rodents on fishing boats, but remained on the island and reproduced in large numbers, currently outnumbering humans 36:1
gARW TIL that Canada has bestowed honorary citizenship on only five individuals, with Malala Yousafzai soon to be sixth. The others are Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, Aung San Suu Kyi, Karim Aga Khan IV (a Shia Imam), and Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who rescued thousands during the Holocaust.
akZL TIL that North Korea is the World’s only Necrocracy -the supreme leader, Kim Il Sung, still rules, and he’s dead…