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TIL Charles Darwin’s cousin invented the dog whistle, meteorology, forensic fingerprinting, mathematical correlation, the concept of “eugenics” and “nature vs nurture”, and the concept of inherited intelligence, with an estimated IQ of 200.

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MebO0 TIL: Smartwatches are gross and more than 30 times dirtier than toilet seats
0wnEM TIL that the exoplanet Kepler-70b has an average temperature hotter than the Sun's surface as a result of falling into its host star and subsequently surviving
mxZVp TIL that Ernest Hemingway lived through anthrax, malaria, pneumonia, dysentery, skin cancer, hepatitis, anemia, diabetes, high blood pressure, two plane crashes, a ruptured kidney, a ruptured spleen, a ruptured liver, a crushed vertebra, and a fractured skull.
9Yrar TIL the elapsed time in a dream is about the same as the elapsed time IRL. For example, if you dream of an activity that would take five minutes in waking life, you probably dream about it for a full five minutes.
1oP8 TIL of the 1925 ‘Great Race of Mercy’ where 20 mushers and 150 sled dogs traveled 674 miles in 5 days to deliver diphtheria antitoxin to Nome, Alaska