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TIL Charles Darwin never used the phrase “survival of the fittest” and actually argued against it.

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wERM TIL Aircraft black boxes are designed to be able to withstand the pressure of being a mile underwater for up to 30 days. In the case of the Airbus box on Air France 447 it spent over 2 ½ years at over 3 miles deep and was still able to determine the cause of the accident.
baZZ TIL the costume worn by Star Trek’s Seven of Nine had to be modified after an error was made measuring the original. The bad fit cut off the blood supply from her carotid artery, causing her to pass out twice and require medical intervention. The costume was modified to stop it from happening again.
0w71y TIL Japan has its own version of Atlantis
W7Gno TIL that a football player lied to his team about being in graduate school. The Baltimore Ravens thought that John Urschel was taking classes at MIT part time. The team did not know that he was a full-time PhD math student. Urschel studied from the end of Sunday games until practice on Tuesday.
78nB7 TIL in September 2012, 88 year-old Ilda Vitor Maciel was killed in a Rio de Janeiro clinic after nurses injected her IV with soup; a month later, 80 year-old Palmerina Pires Ribeiro was killed in Rio de Janeiro when a nurse injected her IV with coffee. The cases are unrelated.