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TIL that sleeping babies who are dropped from a height will spread eagle to break their fall. This is called the Palmar reflex and is evidence to show that humans were once tree-dwellers.

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Bmwk TIL during WWII the U.S. submarine Archerfish sank the Japanese aircraft carrier Shinano, but the U.S. Navy did not believe the submarine actually sank a carrier until the acting commander drew a picture of the carrier.
9RZX TIL that the British exclusively swam breaststroke in competition until the 19th century. In 1844, a Native American came to London and won a competition swimming front crawl (freestyle), a stroke never seen by the Western world, who then regarded it as “un-European”.
7rndX TIL NASA sent actor and Puppeteer Caroll Spinney a letter asking if he’d be interested in flying in space as Big Bird to get kids interested in space travel, do to the size of the costume this idea was scrubbed and the spot on the Space Shuttle Challenger later went to Christa McAuliffe
rNkEd TIL that Pop Warner coached Iowa State remotely for 4 seasons while coaching other schools (Georgia for 2 seasons and Cornell for 2 seasons).
ADG1w TIL London pays yearly rent for a property to the Queen since 1211 with an axe, a knife, 6 horseshoes, and 61 nails.