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TIL that there is genetic evidence that Polynesians and Native Americans interacted over 800 years ago.

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e044 TIL Due to stress and starvation, many male prisoners of WWII concentration camps began to lactate.
VMax4 TIL about James Thurber, author of 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty' was cartoonist in New Yorker who got injured on one eye in childhood and lost vision from the other eye too. But he started seeing hallucinations and it is believed, they were the source of most of his illustrations.
4lGo TIL 1989 Australian Prime Minister, Bob Hawke gave a speech allowing Chinese People to come to Australia following the Tiananmen Square Massacre, without telling the Australian government.
OGY8e TIL Frankenstein is not the name of The Monster; Dr. Frankenstein's assistant (1931) is named Fritz; and neither Fritz nor Igor appears in the 1818 book by Mary Shelley.
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