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TIL Pilates was invented by Joseph Pilates in a WW1 while in an Internment Camp

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op8o TIL - To demonstrate the sharpness of stone tools, Archaeologist Dr. Adrien Hannus elected to have major surgery done with obsidian blades rather than surgical steel scalpels. Obsidian is the sharpest substance known to mankind.
yQMWa TIL that Antartica has a native insect species the Antarctic Midge, Belgica Antarctica. The species has been for around 30 million years and has adapted to surviving the cold, it is the technically the largest land animal on the contient and has the tiniest genome of any insect.
LQXR9 TIL Phryne of Greece was acquitted due to her beauty, after jurors admired her naked body
P1YQO TIL Weezer's Number 1 hit, a cover of Toto's Africa, came to be because of a persistent 14-year old who created a Twitter account and wouldn't stop asking the band to cover the song.
1adn4 TIL about St. Pierre and Miquelon, a territorial collectivity of France only 16 miles from Canada where the locals speak French, use the Euro and have French citizenship.