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TIL Actress Geena Davis almost qualified for the USA Archery Team for the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympics

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W7pbA TIL Many types of marine birds have a “salt gland” which functions similarly to a kidney and allows them to excrete salt from the fish and other ocean life they’ve eaten.
0dQyA TIL: There was a former warlord and cannibal, now preacher known as General Butt Naked. He led the Naked Base Commandos, comprised of child soldiers, to commit child sacrifices and cannibalism in war. He admitted to killing at least 20k, but was not prosecuted. He now assists former child soldiers.
Z8gdR TIL In languages, there is a reproducible correlation between the time required to pronounce numbers in a language and the memory span of its speakers. e.g Chinese number words are remarkably brief. Most of them can be uttered in less than (1/4)th of a second which results in their high memory.
b68BE TIL that Erranatti Mangamma became a mother of two twins at 73 years old and holds the record for having given birth at the highest age
ynew TIL A Japanese farmer discovered a gold seal while repairing an irrigation ditch in 1784. The seal turned out to be 95% pure gold and was a gift from the Chinese Emperor to a Japanese envoy from 54 CE, the earliest recorded date of contact between the two countries