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TIL In 2019, the Wuhan Greenland Center under construction had its height scaled back from 636m to less than 500m

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0wen1 TIL of Dr. Carlos Montezuma a Native American who was stolen by another Tribe and sold to an Italian photographer, who took him to Chicago to be educated. In 1889, Dr. Montezuma, was one of the first Native Americans to receive a degree in medicine. Later he fought for Native American rights.
EjVd TIL that Antartic explorer George Murray Levick in 1911-12 observed penguins’ sexual habits, which included sexual coercion, sex among males and sex with dead females; as these notes were deemed indecent for publication, he wrote them in Greek so that only an educated gentleman could read them
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