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TIL The seahorse is the only case of male pregnancy in the animal world

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GAnyg TIL that in 1958, 2 pilots flew a modified Cessna 172 over the desert Southwest for 64 days, 22 hours, and 19 minutes.
vvK7 TIL To help win Egypt, Napoleon considered converting himself and his army to Islam, but decided against it because the French troops wouldn’t stand for abstinence from alcohol. Pg.140
R7eJw TIL Nikola Tesla was an ardent follower of Vedanta and frequently used Sanskrit terminology in his works. His meeting with the Hindu monk Swami Vivekananda in 1896, facilitated by actress Sarah Bernhardt, triggered his lifelong interest in the Vedas and Indian philosophy.
o8eL TIL the FAA considered building a fake Havana airport in south Florida in the 1960s to address a spree of skyjackings. Many plane hijackers at the time wanted to fly to Cuba. They would have landed at the phony airport, thinking they were in Havana, then been surprised and arrested by U.S. agents.
ADKWw TIL - About a man named Ignaz Semmelweis who has been noted as the inventor of hand washing. He reduced mortality in childhood birth's from puerperal fever (any bacterial infection of the female reproductive tract after childbirth or miscarriage) to under 1%.