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TIL: Iceland is so small that virtually everyone is related but big enough so that you don’t know how you’re related

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E1BVW It’s not enough to be a mammal who lays eggs, sports a duck-like bill and webbed feet, hunts using electroreception, and wields venomous spurs. The platypus also glows green under ultraviolet light.
G6b1 TIL that a Pidgin language is a makeshift language created when two people who speak different languages want to communicate, whereas a Creole language is a language that was originally a Pidgin but is now spoken among a population as their native language.
QNxPX TIL that about 70-85 million people died in the world war 2
GYJlj TIL the lifespan of blue whales is estimated by their earwax, which builds up in seasonal cycles somewhat like the rings of a tree.
7rPmX TIL Elton John answered an ad for a talent search. After failing the audition he told the person behind the desk that he can't write lyrics. He was handed an envelope with lyrics by another person who answered the ad and failed the audition Bernie Taupin, who then wrote the majority of Elton's songs