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TIL The last Great Auk in Britain was accused of witchcraft, and killed by superstitious sailors for conjuring storms. So now we have no more Northern Witch Penguins.

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KOpjR TIL Giuseppe Piazzi, following his discovery of the Dwarf Planet Ceres, had difficulty tracking its position given the lack of data. Carl Friedrich Gauss, upon hearing this, worked for three months on the problem and successfully predicted its position within half a degree a year after discovery.
yQ0YM TIL that online piracy drove Epic Games to stop making PC games from 2006 to 2012. In 2006, for every bought copy of a PC game, there were 10 pirated ones. So Epic Games went console-only.
BrVAx TIL that there is a type of tree that produces 40 types of fruits a year. The ‘Tree of 40 Fruit’ are fruit trees created using the technique of grafting, as an intersection of art, farming, and preservation and each tree produces an incredible harvest of all kinds of stone fruits.
lykV TIL the treadmill was created as a torture device.
YMRv TIL during childbirth scenes in movies and sitcoms, infant actors are smeared with a mixture of cream cheese and red jam for an authentic “just born” look.