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Today I learned: William Hull a esteemed veteran of the revolutionary war. Tarnished his reputation by surrendering the entirety of the territory of Michigan to the British in the war of 1812.

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1aZjr TIL that in 1904 a Swedish sailor, Carl Emil Pettersson, was shipwrecked on an island in Papua New Guinea inhabited by cannibals. The kings daughter fell in love with him. They married and he eventually became king of the island.
VMdE4 TIL there are people that can see sound
RYja TIL : In 1726 a woman named Mary Toft tricked doctors into believing she had given birth to rabbits.She did so by showing dead rabbits up her vagina and then pushing them out hence “birthing” them.
Ypxnv TIL female kangaroos have three vaginas and two uteruses. The two side vaginas carry sperm to each uterus, while the middle vagina sends the joey to the outside world. This can allow female kangaroos to be perpetually pregnant with one joey developing in her pouch and another in the other uterus.
Z87QD TIL we call it a penknife not because of the size, but because that sort of knife was used to prepare quills for writing.