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TIL: Baby tortoises have been found on the Galapagos Island for the first time in over 100 years.

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VajQ TIL the productivity of the team behind Powerpuff girls dropped significantly due to the release of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. The few who didn’t play the game felt left out and annyoed as the rest wouldn’t stop talking about it.
5Y7Z8 TIL in 1971 a woman asked a judge to sterilize her “somewhat retarded” 15-year old daughter without her knowledge, which he granted that day without a hearing. She later sued him, but it was ruled he was immune because he ordered it as a judicial function, even though he ignored due process.
OXNY TIL that in the show “House,” Hugh Laurie actually developed a limp while acting like he had one.
6KJW TIL that alchemist Hennig Brand believed that he could distill gold from human urine. After stockpiling 1,500 gallons of the liquid and boiling it, he discovered phosphorus.
YVQP TIL that the first ever modern commercial refrigerator was built in Australia in 1856 to keep beer cold.