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QdB9 TIL that a Norwegian anthropologist crossed the Pacific Ocean on a primitive balsawood raft to prove his theory that South Americans could have originally populated Polynesia.
BgevL TIL Yaeko Taguchi, a 22-year-old Japanese mother of two, was abducted by North Korea in 1978 after leaving her kids at daycare. Forced to teach Japanese to spy Kim Hyon-hui, later involved in the Korean Air Flight 858 bombing, Kim said Taguchi often wept for her children. Her fate remains unknown.
LAxZ TIL: Firefighters would hide in Ground Zero rubble so that dogs could find “survivors”. Constantly finding bodies was leading to high stress in the dogs as they thought they were failing.
ElDp TIL the average person in 1900 would have been “intellectually disabled” by modern IQ norms
QDld TIL Claudette Colvin was the first person arrested for resisting bus segregation, 9 months before Rosa Parks, but was not used as a figurehead for the civil rights movement because she was an unmarried, pregnant teenager.