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TIL the Australian skink (a lizard species) lays eggs in some regions and gives live birth in others, thus illustrating evolution in real time

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p8pBA TIL that Otto Lilienthal, a German aeronautical engineer, made 2,000 glider flights before the Wright Brothers made the first airplane. He died in a crash in 1896.
v1alj TIL the last Wooly Mammoth died in 1650 BC on Wrangel Island. Around that time, Egypt's Middle Kingdom was coming to an end and Greeks (the precursors to the more well known Greek Empire) had just started to live in Mycenae.
awwZ9 TIL of the quietest place on earth is an anechoic chamber at Orfield Laboratories, where one can sit in complete darkness and silence: producing hallucinogenic feelings like hearing your body’s internal sounds, including heartbeat, and having a heightened self awareness.
yV558 TIL about James Jakob Williams: An African-American marine that - after fighting in the Second Barbary War (1815) - traveled to Greece where slavery had been abolished. There, he fought for the liberation of Greece from the Ottoman empire. He died in 1829: a free man, in a free Greece.
PYE5e TIL Airlines all over the world are flying 10% slower than they did in 1960 to save on fuel costs