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7rZ0L Today I Learned the Clocks Turned "Clockwise" Because of Sundials; As The Sun Moves Across the Northern Hemisphere's Sky, The Shadow it Casts Moves Clockwise, and The First Mechanical Clocks Simply Kept Up This Tradition
oB19R TIL Former Japanese Emperor Akihito is a well-versed marine biologist, focusing studies on ichthyology, or fish studies. Aside from his scientific papers on the Japanese Journal of Ichthyology, he has also published articles on the history of science from the Edo and Meiji eras.
PNmn TIL that for around 100 years in the 16th/17th centuries, almost all European cartographers charted the position of ‘Frisland’, a North Atlantic island that didn’t actually exist.
B6gr TIL A goat was once arrested in Nigeria after vigilantes claimed it was an armed robber who turned himself into a goat with black magic.
jWME TIL that the Burmese Python infestation in the Florida Everglades likely comes from the destruction of a 900 snake breeding facility during Hurricane Andrew in 1992