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TIL of the Higg's Bison, a hypothetical Bison species proposed based on unexpected gene sequences in ancient bones and supported by changes in cave painting depictions of bison.

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dD9aj TIL that Hiawatha was a real person, but Longfellow’s poem The Song of Hiawatha wasn’t really about him at all
X0M9P TIL: During ww2, the UK invaded and took iceland with only 746 soldiers.
J1MPk TIL that Alaska Airlines is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
wo6Y6 TIL that the first recorded separation of conjoined twins took place in the Byzantine Empire in the 900s. One of the twins was already dead, and the other lived for three days after separation. The next recorded separation is several centuries later, in 1689, by Johannes Fatio.
4MeX TIL that despite Olive Garden’s advertising that it has a cooking institute in Tuscany, there is no institute. Olive Garden does send a number of employees to Tuscany each year, but they spend only a few hours at a local restaurant in its off-season.