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TIL about Isobel Wylie Hutchison, a Scottish botanist who challenged early 20th-century gender roles by braving the harsh environments of the Arctic and going on "strolls" that went on for hundreds of miles.

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d8m89 TIL of a small (300 inhabitants) polish village where, over the last nine years, only girls have been born: the last boy is born 12 years ago
7yBp TIL: There are 7 Bible verses about dragons.
16AkD TIL that its actually 3 hours earlier in west usa then in east usa so when its 12pm in new york city its 9am in las angelas
4kDGJ TIL: In 1986 the US refitted Chinese J-8 interceptors with US avionics
EgKXx TIL Judith Love Cohen was American aerospace engineer who helped create the Abort-Guidance System that rescued the Apollo 13 astronauts. When she went into labor, she took a printout of her problem to the hospital. She called her boss and said she finished it before giving birth to actor Jack Black.