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TIL that 78% of New Zealand is Uninhabited

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EgJMp TIL about Susie Baker King Taylor, a nurse in the Civil War for the Union army, a teacher and an author. The only black woman from the south from that era, to publish her memoirs.
E1AV TIL that Alexander Graham Bell invented the metal detector in order to find an assassin’s bullet in President James Garfield’s body, but was unsuccessful because the president was lying on a steel spring bed.
p8Lj4 TIL that France has a territorial possession in North America less than 15 miles from the coast of Newfoundland. The island has a population of 5,000+ and is similar to mainland Europe.
kJ44g TIL that Dr. Leila Alice Daughtry Denmark was America's oldest known practicing physician when she retired in 2001. She was one of the first women pediatricians in Atlanta, and has been seeing patients and advising parents for more than seventy years.
LjLZ TIL White Hands is a nonprofit organization in Japan that has a service called Ejaculation Help where medical sex workers help people with disabilities reach orgasms.