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TIL Pelvic Exams on Unconsenting Women Are a Regular Part of Medical Training for Students

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jLka TIL Charles Darwin & Joseph Hooker started the world’s first terraforming project on Ascension Island in 1850. The project has turned an arid volcanic wasteland into a self sustaining and self reproducing ecosystem made completely of foreign plants from all over the world.
loke1 TIL Norway's oil fund is worth 1 trillion dollars. But, the country only spends 3% of the fund a year, because they are saving it for the next generation.
wLGW TIL that Claudette Colvin resisted bus segregation nine months before Rosa Parks, and it is her case that went to the Supreme Court — only for her to be swept under the rug by NAACP leaders since she was a pregnant teenager.
VBVLp TIL that a polar bear liver has enough vitamin A to kill 52 adults! Ito cells are cells in the liver that store Vitamin A (Lipid soluble). High Vitamin A production in marine algae at the bottom of the food chain results in polar bear livers with enough Vitamin A to last a human 143 years!
kJ6B4 TIL the West Shore Line railroad tracks go under a large portion of the US Military Academy at West Point, NY