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TIL 1 in 10 inhabitants on the island of Pingelap is color blind due to a ‘population bottleneck’ in 1775 after a catastrophic typhoon swept through the remote island leaving only 20 survivors. One of the survivors was King Nanmwarki Mwanenihsed, patient 0 with the rare Achromatopsia gene.

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x68B TIL Joseph Kittinger’s hand swelled to twice its normal size after there was a malfunction of the pressurization in his right glove during his freefall from 102,800 feet
e05Vn TIL Secretariat has 263 US streets named after him - far more than any other athlete, human or otherwise.
d85OQ TIL Greenland is part of North America
69e68 TIL the survival rate of cardiac arrest outside Hospital with CPR is 11.2%. With immediate defibrillator it’s 41%
neQpB TIL the insulin pumps used by at least 350K Americans with diabetes (couldn't find the global number) were invented as a direct result of some of the earliest NASA technology from the Apollo program.