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TIL, Australia was not a paradise for women and children pre-colonialism. Absolutely heartbreaking article.

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Wkge9 TIL that people in the final stages of hypothermia end up trying to enter small, enclosed spaces. This is called terminal burrowing, and is believed by researchers to be an autonomous process, controlled by the brain stem.
R7RZ1 TIL the 1918 flu was recreated from a victim found in the Alaskan permafrost. Monkeys infected with the flu strain had classic symptoms of the 1918 pandemic, and died from a cytokine storm - an overreaction of the immune system. This helps to understand why healthy individuals died from the flu.
M7Ej8 TIL about Black Sunday, April 14, 1935, when a massive dust storm hundreds of miles wide and thousands of feet high tore through Oklahoma and Texas. Temperatures dropped 30+ degrees in 2 hours as the storm turned day into night, plunging the Southern Plains into total darkness.
J1W6j TIL Berry College, a private liberal arts college in Mount Berry community adjacent to Rome, Georgia, holds the world record for the largest campus at 27,000 acres - including fields, forests and Lavender Mountain. It was founded on values based on Christian principles by Martha Berry in 1902.
4XJAX TIL that the first full-length full-color film was an American historical drama "Becky Sharp", directed by Rouben Mamoulian in 1935. It was shot on 3-strip technicolor cameras that captured separate color records onto three strips of film.