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TIL in 2014 a Dutch woman was ID'd as one of the babies born in prison and kidnapped during Argentina’s military dictatorship between 1976 and 1983

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7rY4P TIL: Samuel Morse invented the telegraph after he received a letter of his wife’s failing health… after she’d died.
xPwb TIL A species of snail with a metallic armour of iron has been discovered living on the bases of a hydrothermal vent field in the Indian Ocean. Only living creature to have ax exoskeleton re-enforced with metal.
PYOgJ TIL about Karre Mastanamma - an Indian YouTube celebrity chef who got her big break at the age of 105 with over a million subscribers to her channel. Her unique ways of preparing dishes outside on an open fire - such as roasting chicken inside a steaming watermelon - were hugely appreciated.
yQRN8 TIL that carbon dating data for human bones can be thrown off by hundreds of years if the deceased ate a lot of seafood, because the carbon in fish could have been generated hundreds of years ago and then recycled among the fish and plants (and other food) before being caught and eaten by a human.
egKJ TIL The entire nation of Qatar has the same IP address