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TIL that Sweden has 267,570 islands, making it the country in the world with the most islands

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pYWXp TIL the medical research surrounding having people’s gender not matching their genetic markers has been occurring for a very long time. Genetically born males who cannot process androgens such as testosterone and grow up female because medically it was the best outcome. Many didn’t even know.
6EAB8 TIL that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas spoke a creole language associated with the descendants of slaves called Gullah as his first-language and that his relative silence on the Court is due in part to self-consciousness from being teased about the way he spoke as a child in rural Georgia.
wmV7 TIL that 2014 marks 200 years of peace between the United States and Britain
j6XYQ TIL breast milk can be used to heal medical conditions such as rashes and ear infections
BrwaK TIL That Tesla created first X-Ray image, a few weeks before Rontgen. However, he let Rontgen take full credit for the discovery and the patent.