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TIL that there is one remaining glacier on the Indonesian side of Papua, due to its very high elevation despite being on the equator.

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wWJE TIL of Claudette Colvin, the 16-year-old African-American girl who refused to give up her bus seat 9 months before Rosa Parks
rNpne TIL of Ikota, 'possession' of woman in the Perm Region of Russia. Epidemics had been so widespread, USSR officials had sent the party to investigate 'outbreaks'. Today, some scientists believe it's "a mild form of epilepsy which is a physiological reaction to extreme fright", or "Arctic Hysteria"
dvP9 Today I learned that ‘sine’ is derived from an Arabic word for 'bosom’, thus making it the oldest mathematical boobies joke.
K0R6 TIL Yao Ming is an ambassador for elephant conservation
4kyw5 TIL After the big banking crisis of Florence in 1340 which wrecked the economy, an obscure laborer named Ciuto Branditi single handedly tried to organise his fellow wool workers into a union. He held assemblies and collected tithes for strike funds. His arrest caused a strike in the wool industry