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GYb8G Today I learned that there was a species of humans that were extremely short, named Homo floresiensis, and nicknamed 'hobbit'. They were found on the island of Flores, Indonesia, and the remains of a skeleton found tell us that they were around 1.1m tall.
x67p1 TIL that slavery was still legal in the British Empire as late as 1964 (in the Federation of South Arabia, previously the Aden Colony, now part of Yemen)
KbJE TIL: A resort in Alaska built a hotel made entirely of ice. It was shut down due to lack of smoke detectors & fire extinguishers.
9wE7M TIL in 2013, teens Temar Boggs and Chris Garcia chased a kidnapper on bikes to save a 5-year-old girl in Pennsylvania. Boggs was later convicted of armed robbery but paroled in 2019 after showing remorse.
4kb5 TIL the first country that will be entirely lost to rising sea levels (Kiribati) is already planning the complete, permanent evacuation of its population