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TIL that Galapagos Islands are highly protected that visitors have to follow state-approved tour guides, cannot bring outside food, and shoes have to be cleaned before setting foot on the islands.

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Zppja TIL some people are born tongue-tied. This anomaly restricts mobility of the tongue due to an unusually short, thick lingual frenulum, the membrane connecting the underside of the tongue to the floor of the mouth. The condition is easily fixed by surgically cutting the frenulum
epQn6 TIL Leo Hirschfield, the Austrian-American inventor of both the Tootsie Roll & the first commercially successful gelatin dessert mix, committed suicide in 1923 after contracting a chronic illness and his beloved wife was committed, leaving a note simply stating "Sorry, but could not help it."
y6eM TIL that 70% of Mongolian nomads have solar power since 2013. The sun shines 250 days on average each year in Mongolia. It shines, even during the frigid winter days, on the hundreds of thousands of nomads who still roam the steppes, herding animals and living in dome-like tents calling gers.
E17A0 TIL 750 American citizens serve in the Israeli Defense Force
P1m8g TIL in a Study by Anthropic, Its AI (Claude) Attempted to Cheat Its Training Data and Steal Its Own Weights When Given the Opportunity to Do So