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TIL that the depression on the back of your hand when you stick your thumb out is called your anatomical snuffbox for its historical use in sniffing tobacco

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8eAnZ TIL Forrest Fenn, an art dealer and author hid a treasure chest (gold nuggets, rare coins, gemstones etc) in the Rocky Mountains worth around $2,000,000. It was found approximately a decade later, in 2020. Before that several people went missing searching for it.
a896L TIL of Frigg Fjord, the northernmost settlement in human history. In northern Greenland, it is 544km (338mi) farther north than Longyearbyen, Svalbard. Inhabited even in winter approximately 2400 years ago, inhabitants would have spent 139 straight days with the sun below the horizon.
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nejpG TIL four-legged herbivores such as cows and horses have "stay apparatus" in their legs -- tendons and ligaments that allow them to remain standing with minimal muscular effort. However, while this allows them to doze while standing, they can enter REM sleep and dream only while lying down.
l7PJ1 TIL Bon Scott, the original lead singer of AC/DC, was not born in Australia but in Angus, Scotland and ofc Angus being the name of AC/DC’s lead guitarist