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9YDyM TIL: The creator of the Gil Sans font had sex with his sisters, daughters, and dog. He was named Royal Designer for Industry, the highest British award for designers
wLAJW TIL the Pyrenean desman (Galemys pyrenaicus) is a small semiaquatic, globally threatened mammal related to moles and shrews which inhabits Spain, Portugal, Andorra and the French Pyrenees. The desman has webbed feet and a very sensitive and elongated nose which it uses to find its invertebrate prey.
7rpbL TIL the Caesar salad is named after the Italian restaurateur Caesar Cardini, who first created the salad in his restaurant in Tijuana, Mexico.
jLJE TIL that during the Atlantic slave trade era, Brazil imported more slaves than any other country, and that Brazil was the last country in the Western world to abolish slavery.
j64YM TIL that ITER is the nuclear fusion research project aimed to create energy through a fusion process similar to that of the Sun. Creating an artificial Sun, hoping to generate electricity has already been described as the most expensive science experiment of all time.