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vkGx TIL the United States almost adopted the Metric System in 1794. Frenchman Joseph Dombey was en route to America to present the prototypes of a Meter and a Kilogram to the US Congress but his ship got hit by a storm and he got stranded in the Carribean where he died in a British prison.
xxv0 TIL the tradition of women in Bolivia wearing bowler hats dates back to the late 1800’s when a shipment meant for English workers were too small so they were given to the locals
wx5E TIL that during the Napoleonic wars, a french ship wrecked off the coast of Hartlepool. The only survivor being a Monkey in a french uniform. Since the locals had never seen a Monkey nor a Frenchman before, they concluded the monkey was a french spy and hanged the monkey.
OGLW6 TIL Komodo dragons can have so-called virgin births. As well as mating with males the species is parthenogenetic: in other words, the females can lay fertile eggs without any input from males. This will only reproduce identical young, however. For the species to continue to adapt, it needs to mate.
D0XY TIL that starfish can see with compound eyes at the ends of their arms