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TIL that European settlers killed so many Native Americans that it temporarily changed the global climate

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aPry TIL that ‘lbs’ comes form the latin word 'libra’ which means pound.
yVDVe TIL about Preserved Fish, a prominent NYC shipping merchant who sailed to the Pacific in his youth aboard a whaling vessel, became Captain Preserved Fish at 21 and amassed a fortune selling whale oil before his death in 1846.
wLoao TIL: Mercury was required for felting fabrics, especially hats. Hatters in the 1800’s had chronic mercury toxicity that caused mental instability thus dubbing the term “mad hatters disease” or “mad as a hatter”- and was the primary plight that Louis Carroll developed the mad hatter character around.
GA5Y7 TIL about Hans Spemann, a German embryologist who won the 1935 Nobel Prize in Medicine after he put his name on his student Hilde Mangold's dissertation. She discovered embryonic induction, one of the first steps toward cloning, but died in 1924.
JkD1 TIL that the Western Egyptian Siwa Oasis had historical acceptance of male homosexuality and even rituals celebrating same-sex marriage - traditions that modern Egyptian authorities have sought to repress