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TIL: There was another species of human recently found.

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Pm7n TIL a small magnet implanted in a finger can allow one to sense magnetic fields. This body mod can be very useful in professions that work with electric currents, allowing the detection of live wires and avoiding electric shock.
6XWX TIL, after winning one of the most famous dogfights of WWII, a Japanese fighter pilot managed to fly over 4 hours back to base despite being blind and paralyzed down the entire left side of his body from enemy fire; he endured and survived emergency surgery without anesthesia immediately afterward.
o1Lr TIL that before Alcoa could build an aluminum smelting plant in Iceland, the government had to certify that the area was “elf-free”.
R71Z1 TIL about St. Lucia's flood. A storm tide in 1287 in Northern Europe that was so large it killed between 50,000 to 80,000 people and created a large saltwater bay in the Netherlands called the Zuiderzee (Southern Sea)
9j5D TIL that during the Great Recession, Australia didn’t bail out their banks. Instead, they gave each citizen $900, no questions asked. As a result, Australia was the only western country not to go into recession.