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TIL the word evolution does not appear once in Darwin’s ‘On the Origin of Species’ (1859). Instead he uses the word 'transmutation’.

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d8OE7 TIL Torakusa Yamaha founded Yamaha in 1887 due to his obsession with western technology and science. After successfully fixing a school’s reed organ, he realized the business opportunity of instrument brand, since at the time there were no Japanese makers of Western instruments
grj9X TIL that maggot therapy is a medical practice used to clean wounds and promote healing by using live maggots to eat dead tissue
loP4a TIL of Dr. Norman Bethune, a Canadian who served as an army doctor in both the Spanish Civil War and Second Sino-Japanese War and invented the first mobile blood transfusion clinic. He is so beloved in China that his eulogy penned by Mao Zedong is required reading in Chinese textbooks.
yVvoM TIL that author Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom's Cabin) and Mark Twain (Huckleberry Finn) were next door neighbors.
XxXE TIL that in front of the Embassy of Japan, there is a statue of a small girl staring at it, representing the comfort women who passed away having waited for true apology from Japan.