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TIL that Australia has its own version of Yeti/Bigfoot called Yowie. This mythical creature appears in many other name in Aboriginal folklore with earliest report of sighting in 1795.

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DDGe TIL during the 1920s, a devastating illness swept the world without known cause, attacking peoples’ brains, leaving victims speechless and motionless. The disease, known as Encephalitis Lethargica, killed nearly a million people and left millions more frozen inside their bodies. No cure was found.
R5gm4 TIL that Mitsutaka Uchikoshi, a Japanese hiker survived 24 days on a mountain without food or water by going into a state of hibernation. Doctors believe this is the first known case of a human going into hibernation
5YKRP TIL Alberta Canada is the largest inhabited land mass that has no rat population. Every territory surrounding it has rats, but high rat control efforts have kept them out.
awp7y TIL 1 sperm has 37.5MB of DNA information in it. That means a normal ejaculation represents a data transfer of 1587GB in about 3 seconds
GYLo7 TIL The Racial Equality Proposal was a proposed Japanese amendment to the Treaty of Versailles demanding racial equality among citizens of the League of Nations. It received opposition from the US and Australia, and this rejection caused Japan to alienate and militarize leading up to WWII.