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TIL Earth is not flat but rather round.

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kJkLW TIL Harris Hawks will stand on each others backs when there's limited perch space. It's called back stacking
4XdDJ TIL about James Barry (born Margaret Bulkley), an esteemed military surgeon who reformed medical standards across the British Empire. He performed one of the 1st C-sections where both mother & child survived. After Barry's death in 1865, it was discovered his assigned sex at birth was female.
OoLpg TIL that Alessandro Volta not only invented battery, but also discovered and isolated methane and was a prime minister of short-lived Cisalpine Republic
0d6E5 TIL That Mary Shelly finished writing her masterpiece Frankenstein at the age of 19.
OGE1a TIL of the General Slocum disaster in which a steamboat caught fire and sank in NYC waterways in 1904, killing 1,021 out of the 1,342 people on board.