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TIL Polar bears are invisible to night-vision goggles.

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neQdW TIL that in two of the 145 instances of homicide recorded in the London eyre court rolls of 1278, two of these resulted over quarrels breaking out after a game of chess.
O7d6 TIL the first commercial digital navigation system, Etak, was released in 1985, before commercial GPS. The founders had to digitize their own maps which were so accurate they’re still in use today, including in Apple’s Maps app.
b64O7 TIL Steller’s sea cows were massive, docile animals that were exterminated less than 30 years after the species was first discovered.
44QN TIL that at 92 years of age Kevin Bacon’s dad rode a skateboard in love park in protest of the city banning skaters from the park that he had designed.
N07P TIL Someone made a lifejacket for a fish that can’t swim.