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TIL traditional navigators in the Marshall Islands can locate land as far as 40 km away by identifying patterns in waves created as currents flow around islands. These patterns can be too subtle for mechanical devices like wave buoys to detect

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AEWd TIL that after the removal of the Creek and Cherokee from their lands, the state of Georgia held a series of public lotteries to give away the property to White settlers.
keJ1 TIL there is a women that can see 100 million hues of color which is 99 million more hues then the average person.
enk6 TIL a museum in Boston has not removed empty frames of stolen paintings from the walls after an art theft in 1990. The art stolen is worth 500 million, the largest property theft ever.
rRNBo New research shows that world-class sprinters don’t use their legs to just bounce off the ground as most other runners do, they deliver a forceful punch to ground.
epZmg TIL since its invention in 1959, the MOSFET transistor has become the most produced artificial object in history with over 13 sextillion manufactured