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TIL of Seal Finger - inflammation from touching unprocessed seal products or seal bites. It's transmission is unknown.

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j6g0n TIL in 1964 whilst a student, future astronaut Reinhard Furrer assisted in the escape of 57 East Berlin citizens via a tunnel under the Berlin Wall
5VOQ8 TIL Japan slaughtered all the animals in Tokyo zoo during WW2 worried that they’ll escape in case of US/UK air attacks
ADmoB TIL that there are white rainb9ws that appear in fog.
vAjB TIL of child prodigy Kim Ung-Yong - The Man With World’s Highest IQ who was fluent in 4 languages by the age of 4 and began attending university the same year.
yQ6av TIL of Elizabeth Van Lew. After her father died, she and her mother freed all his slaves. She then used her inheritance to free some of the slaves' relatives. During the Civil War, she operated a spy ring. When Richmond fell to the Union, she was the 1st person to raise the Union flag in the city