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TIL Wizard of Oz author L. Frank Baum wanted to ‘exterminate’ all Native Americans

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VBnnG TIL about Poland Syndrome, a medical birth defect where part of the individual’s chest muscles are missing during birth.
e5mb TIL: The only freshwater seal lives in the worlds largest freshwater lake in Baikal, Russia. “ It remains a scientific mystery how the seals originally came to Lake Baikal, hundreds of kilometers from any ocean.”
rv6o TIL that dinosaur fossils can “opalize” rather than fossilize.
rAny TIL that resumes with White sounding names (e.g. Emily and Brendan) elicit 50% more callbacks than resumes with African American sounding names (e.g. Lakisha and Jamal). This discrimination persists even when resumes with African American names list more credentials than resumes with White names.
DQogD TIL in the early 2000s Disney released a series of 3 Eurobeat albums. The albums contained Eurobeat remixes of various classic Disney songs. They were exclusive to Japan.