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TIL that Winston Churchill was prescribed ‘Indefinite’ quantities of alcohol during prohibition

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M7JyV TIL that there is a small island in Japan filled with wild rabbits that roam freely, and it's called Rabbit Island.
840L TIL The aircraft carrier USS Yorktown was heavily damaged after destroying a Japanese aircraft carrier during the first carrier battle in history. After 48 hours of emergency repairs, it ended up helping destroy two more carriers before being sunk, and inadvertently saved the other US carriers.
ONo7 TIL that the mathematician Pythagoras refused to ever eat or even touch beans. In fact, while being chased by attackers, he came across a bean field but refused to enter. His attackers promptly caught him and slit his throat.
wLZJM TIL in antartica, scientists recently found fossil fragments of 13 trees that are over 260 million years old, meaning that this forest was growing at the end of the Permian Period, before the first dinosaurs. At that time, Antarctica was still at the South pole
99YX TIL the very first iPhone unlocking was done by a 17-year-old. He then traded the device for three locked iPhones and a Nissan 350Z.