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TIL Hawaii’s ecosystem has no seagulls

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nWlad TIL that in 1536, Panna Dai, a nursemaid of the Heir of Mewar, sacrificed her son to save the Heir’s life. She made her son sleep on the Heir’s bed and covered him so that the assassin would think that he assassinated the Heir. It worked.
xAjo TIL the Mayflower landed early because they ran out of beer. This was because water was unsafe, but beer remained drinkable.
VBM44 TIL that the reason the middle finger is offensive is it was used as an explicit reference to the male genitalia. Greek playwright Aristophanes puns in his comedy The Clouds about dactylic (finger) rhythm, with a character gesturing first with his middle finger and subsequently with his crotch.
rRlBw TIL hurricanes and storms induce labor in pregnant women because low barometric pressures induce delivery by leading to breaking their water.
Y7aBB TIL about the Lazarus Taxon, or the collection of species thought to be extinct but rediscovered, sometimes millions of years later.