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TIL babies have nearly 100 more bones than adults

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7rExr TIL about Le Gentil. In 1760, went to India to see transit of Venus. He missed it, so he waited there for 8 years until the next one. When he returned, he learned that he had been declared dead: His estate had been divided up, his wife had remarried, and his position at the academy was given away.
ZZ7B TIL the Eiffel Tower’s construction permit required it to be removed 20 years after it was completed (1909).
kOQJ4 TIL most black olives are just unripe green olives treated with a solution to darken them
5kBD TIL Fred Willard is the first (and so far, only) actor to appear as a live-action character in a Pixar movie. He plays Shelby Forthright, CEO of Buy and Large, in an archive video shown in the movie “WALL-E”.
xne7 TIL in 2009, Bill Gates gave a presentation on mosquitoes and malaria. After he explained the severity of the disease and how it’s transmitted via mosquitoes, he ended his presentation by releasing a swarm of mosquitoes into the audience.