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TIL In 2018, National Geographic magazine apologized for publishing decades of unacceptable past coverage after editor Susan Goldberg found a photo caption of Aborginal Australians from 1916 that left her "speechless". During that era, indigenous Australians were anticipated to be a dying race

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69mol TIL about a short series of Garfield comic strips in Halloween 1989 that depict Garfield waking up in an abandoned house, alone and starving. Jim Davis wrote them “…to scare people. And what do people fear most? Why, being alone.”
neOLo TIL That dogs and cats circle around before bedding down as a throwback to their wild ancestors. Their survival instincts provoked them to position themselves in the direction of the wind to pick up predator scents and choose the best angle for keeping an eye on the environment.
JXrl TIL of a pool in Minneapolis, MN that is a natural swimming pool. It is a self-contained swimming vessel that uses plants and natural microbes from a nearby regeneration pond to clarify and purify the water instead of chemicals for sterilization or disinfection.
PjG TIL that mammals have a reflex to reduce the intensity of loud noises. It’s possible to exploit this by simply humming or speaking. Loud noises don’t just sound less intense, less sound is actually transmitted to the inner ear and then to the brain.
vPm5x TIL Vaseline inventor, Robert Chesebrough, was convinced of its health benefits to the extent that he consumed a daily spoonful, When he fell ill with pleurisy in his 50s, he had himself entirely coated in Vaseline by his nurse, which he believed led to his recovery, His long life spanned 96 yrs.