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TIL that Les Stroud claims he may have encountered a “bigfoot” on two occasions while filming Survivorman

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EB1V TIL an error of Costa Rica’s border on Google Maps led to an invasion of Costa Rica by the army of Nicaragua. Google responded, saying that their Maps “shouldn’t be used as a reference to decide military actions between countries”.
0deb5 TIL that one of the first devices made to estimate electric voltage, the "Frog Galvanoscope" of the late 1700s, was named after its crude method of attaching electrical wires directly to the exposed nerve of a recently skinned frog leg, which would jerk suddenly in response to electric current.
nWw7o TIL The University of Alabama is the number one employer in the state of Alabama. In 2023 they received $413 million in grants from the NIH alone.
nex0B TIL a man endured 440 days drifting across the Pacific Ocean until he was found in the Marshall Islands in 2013, emaciated and wearing only his underpants, having swum ashore.
VQOG TIL that the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge being depicted as an apple may have originated as a Latin pun: by eating the malum (apple), Eve contracted mālum (evil).