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TIL pubic lice are now an endangered species

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G6vE TIL that when the first European settlers reached North America, lobsters were so plentiful that they would reportedly wash ashore in piles up to 2 feet high
pGkN TIL that a black Nigerian couple gave birth to a “miracle” blond white baby.
1a9YW TIL in 2017, a man in Texas purchased a working Sherman tank and parked it outside his house. After sending a “sternly worded letter” and realizing that they couldn’t tow the vehicle, the local HOA began issuing parking tickets on the tank. The owner left it there for two more weeks out of spite.
9YGkQ TIL the cylindrical "Mercator projection" map used almost everywhere, from maritime navigation to modern web navigation and GPS was created in 1569.
xQZb TIL a 1981 arcade in Chicago put a camera in one of their machines so players who got a high score could put their picture on the high score screen. It lasted one day before a guy used it to take a picture of his junk