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TIL there is a group of Pacific Islanders that can control their pupil dilation and see clearly underwater.

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RpKl TIL the “slow puncture”, a form of punishment in South African prisons among inmates, consisting in the rape by a person with AIDS.
LopZ TIL The Susie G. Komen Foundation has only donated 3.6% of the money it’s raised to metastatic breast cancer research.
M7GEb TIL that Canada’s coastline (202,080 km) which is the world’s longest is at least 3.5 times the length of Indonesia’s (54,716 km)
XZ5P TIL that Lina Medina, the world’s youngest mother who gave birth at the age of five in 1939 had started menstruating at three, developed breasts at four and broader hips by five. The biological father was never found and she is still alive today.
Golg TIL The Massachusetts Language, once spoken by several Algonquin tribes, went extinct in the 1800s. However several documents survived such as Bibles, treaties, and sales papers. In 1993 the Wampanoag tribe started teaching classes and now there are over 400 secondary and 4 native speakers.