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TIL Canada and the US share a number of "pene-exclaves" which are parts of a country that that can only be conveniently reached through the territory of another, such as Point Roberts, WASH and the Northwest Angle, MINN

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16B0V TIL Malo kingi or the common kingslayer is an Australian Irukandji jellyfish named after Robert King - an American tourist killed by one of them in 2002. They are the smallest jellyfish in the world, the size of a thumbnail and hospitalise 50-100 people each year. Their venom causes haemorrhaging.
KO7e4 TIL in the 1970’s the United States government forcibly sterilized as many as 70,000 Native American women, often without consent or knowledge.
8kVa TIL that even with SATA 3.0, that SSDs only transfer data at a fraction of their speed due to the fact that SATA can’t keep up with the drive.
4x1b TIL that Stephen Girard, one of the wealthiest men in American history, personally saved the U.S. government from financial collapse during the War of 1812.
4O6 TIL Facial disfigurements creep us out, because our subconsciousness scans the disfigurement as a potential disease.