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TIL Douglas Tompkins, founder of The North Face Company, purchased and conserved over 2 million acres of land in Chile and Argentina, becoming one of world’s largest private land owners

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yYkl TIL that an ocean line stewardess who survived the sinking of three ships: Titanic, Britannic, and the Olympic, made sure to grab her toothbrush while going down with the Britannic because it was the first thing she missed having after going down on the Titanic.
Yp4dr TIL that the male angler fish mates by biting into the (much larger) female, fusing their flesh with an enzyme, and merging their circulatory systems. He then trades his sperm for her blood/nutrients for the rest of his life, stuck to her side. Some females have up to eight males attached.
9dP7 TIL a woman tricked doctors into thinking she could give birth to rabbits. She shoved the rabbits into her vagina before ‘birthing’ them
x6bYw TIL that Dr. Evan O'Neill Kane, who had removed his own appendix, was the first surgeon to bring music into the operating room
E1LVd TIL that electronic television was first successfully demonstrated in San Francisco on September 7, 1927. The system was designed by Philo Taylor Farnsworth, a 21-year-old inventor who had lived in a house without electricity until he was 14.