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TIL that Marry Mallon ('Typhoid Mary') lived in forced quarantine for the last twenty years of her life in an Island just off of New York ('North Brother Island')

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9BMM TIL in the Ecuadorian Rain Forest trees have been discovered that can “walk” up to 20 meters in a year
0wkXR TIL that Octopuses have a sucker-proof coating on their skin to make sure they don't grab and tangle their own tentacles.
MpbA TIL that spanking children makes them MORE likely to be defiant to their spanking parent. It also makes them more likely to have anti social and mental issues.
QpRX TIL the Hindenburg was designed for helium but the US had a monopoly on helium and banned its export
R5b49 TIL that the most powerful supercomputer in the year 2000 (the IBM ASCI White) cost the 2022 equivalent of $189 million and ran at 7.226 teraflops. The 32-Core variant of the Macbook Pro in 2022 costs $3,499 and has a peak performance of 10.4 teraflops.