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TIL Prehistoric monkeys migrated from Africa to South America by traversing the Atlantic Ocean on natural rafts

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owaK Til. That water currents take a 1000 years to complete a cycle.
5Y7yn TIL that Microsoft Surface was originally a 90kg device the size of a coffee table, way back in 2008.
yVD7v TIL about Henry J. Kaiser, an American industrialist who helped build the Hoover Dam and whose steelyard made Liberty ships in WWII. At the height of his success he had his own automobile company and broadcast corporation. Today only the healthcare company Kaiser Permanente is left of his empire.
RdE9 TIL that in 1907 a medical doctor tried to prove the existence of the human soul by weighing people at the moment of their death.
Qeke TIL in 1981 a man named Roger Fischer had an idea for a volunteer to have ICBM launch codes put in their chest cavity. In the event of an emergency, the volunteer would carry a knife to be killed with. It was meant to force the personal killing of one man to start the impersonal killing of millions.