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TIL humans are evolving faster than at any point in the past 250 years. Increasingly babies have shorter faces, smaller jaws, an extra artery in the arm, and extra bones in their legs and feet.

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1kyd TIL a WWII Congressman publicly mentioned that US submarines escaped typically shallow Japanese depth charges, likely leading the Japanese to adjust and sink 10 additional subs and 800 service men.
Eg0xV TIL NASA's crawler transporter that's used to move rockets from the assembly building to the launch pad gets 32 feet per gallon (165 gal/mile) from its 5000 gallon capacity diesel fuel tank
ne1dr TIL that Jane Goodall Became One of America's Most Notable Scientists — Without a College Degree. Thanks to a trip to Kenya in her early 20s, Goodall met Louis Leakey, who saw her passion for animals and ability to observe them as her biggest asset.
OG6YX TIL Gordon Lightfoot was inspired to write "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" when he saw the name misspelled as "Edmond" in Newsweek magazine. He felt the misspelling dishonored the memory of the 29 men who died when the freighter sank in Lake Superior during a storm on November 10, 1975.
1aE7X TIL that there is a McDonald's in the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. The restaurant is only accessible to the base's personnel and the chain says it has no plans to open any other branches in Cuba.