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TIL That babies born with extra digits are not that rare, and those with 6 fingers on one hand are able to play a complicated video game with a single hand. What’s more, their brains have no trouble controlling the more complex movements of their extra digits.

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v1PER Prochlorococcus is believed to be the most abundant photosynthetic creature on the planet and may provide as much as 20 percent of the oxygen you breathe. Oceanographer and Explorer-in-Residence Sylvia Earle introduces us to these microscopic bacteria.
6lRW TIL that 5 scientists observed 60,000 episodes combined of 73 cows lying down to determine that: (1) the longer the cow has been lying down, the more likely the cow will soon stand up, and (2) once the cow stands up you cannot easily predict how soon that cow will lie down again.
nWXOY TIL Rwanda, East Africa, leads the entire world for the most women in government. In 2008 it became the first nation on earth to have a female majority government - and, since then, the country has maintained the figure at an approximately 60% majority...
4kmDg TIL about Ankimo, a japanese delicacy made with the liver of the rare Monk fish (a fish genetically related to the anglerfish).
8aX9L TIL Malcolm X said that white people could not join his black nationalist Organization of Afro-American Unity, but "if John Brown were still alive, we might accept him." Brown was a famous abolitionist convicted and hanged for treason after attempting to lead a slave rebellion in 1859.