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TIL Up Until the 1950s, There Was a Species of Seal Living in the Caribbean From Florida to Mexico

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4MO5 TIL - Europeans didn’t know Marco Polo’s “Cathay” was really China or that the city “Cambulac” was really Beijing, until 1598 when Jesuit priests in Beijing talked to Arab merchants there, who still called it Cambulac. Maps until the 17th century showed China and Cathay as 2 different empires.
VB49m TIL it is entirely possible that our planet has already been detected by the planets of 75 neighbouring stars to contain life, from our earliest radio wave transmissions.
0xl1 TIL the Producers of Hannah Montana almost named her Alexis Texas.
lXw1 TIL Some jazz musicians in the 40s converted to Islam to get around segregation problems. “If you join the Muslim faith, you ain’t colored no more, you’ll be white”
rgle TIL in 2009 two nuclear submarines crashed into one another and nearly sank. And in 1998, 93, 92, 81, 70…