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TIL that Scotland was once home to 2 feet long scorpions

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w4vY TIL of Stella Walsh, an Olympic runner who in 1936 lost to a competitor and petitioned for her to be subjected to a gender test (due to her fast time). Upon autopsy in 1980, Stella was discovered to be a man.
Z1KG TIL that the name of textbook rental company, Chegg, comes from the contraction of chicken and egg, based on the founders’ experience after graduating from college; they could not land a job without experience, but could not get experience without a job, a chicken or the egg type of quandary.
D1ooV TIL about Abram Petrovich Gannibal, an African child kidnapped to Russia as a gift for Peter the Great. The tsar freed him and raised him as his godson. Gannibal became a Major-General and the Governor of Reval. He is the great-grandfather of Alexander Pushkin, considered the greatest Russian poet.
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