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TIL The Wiggles iconic Wiggle Fingers was created as a safe way for people to know where their hands are when interacting with children

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W7y0B TIL in 2020 a bar-tailed godwit broke the "world record" for the longest flight by a bird, flying for 11 days straight from Alaska to New Zealand, a distance of over 12,000 km or 7,500 miles.
mxeLo TIL that the actors who play Mr. Bean and Dr. House (Rowan Atkinson, Hugh Laurie) starred together in a British historical comedy called Blackadder where they are barely recognizable
9Y5YG TIL If the average night's sleep is eight hours (ie one third of a day), one sleeps for one third of one's life. If you live, say, 75 years, that's 25 years asleep, or 9,125 days
EAjW TIL the bones of notorious Auschwitz doctor and SS officer Josef Mengele are used as a teaching aid in medical forensics classes at the University of São Paulo. They were originally exhumed in 1985 in order to confirm his death.
b9oL9 TIL of Fannie Quigley—a five-foot-tall frontierswoman who spent nearly 40 years prospecting in a remote Alaskan region in the 1890s. She was defined as an all-in-one miner, hunter, brewer, and cook who used mine shafts as a beer fridge and shot bears to get lard for pie crusts.