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TIL about Gardiners Island. 2nd largest private island in the US and owned by the same family since 1639. Located at the east end of Long Island, it’s over 5 sq miles with 1,000 acres each of old growth forest and meadows. Captain Kidd buried treasure there, first lady Julia Tyler was born there.
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TIL that in addition to using the stars, Micronesians navigated the Pacific by recognizing and interpreting different type of ocean swells, even using them to pinpoint the existence of islands hundreds of miles away. Marshallese islanders additionally made stick maps of these ocean swell patterns.
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TIL that the fibonacci sequence can approximately convert miles to kilometers. Select any two adjacent numbers from the series e.g. 8 and 13. Assuming smaller number is in miles & larger number is in kilometers. 1 Miles = 1.60934 Kilometer, 8 Miles = 8 * 1.60934 = 12.8747 Km ≈ 13 Km, so 8M ≈ 13Km
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TIL the largest living organism as of June 2022 is a specimen of “Posidonia australis” seagrass (aka Poseidon’s ribbon weed).Spawned from a single seed around 4500 years old and covering approximately 200 square kilometres (77 square miles), the entire plant is connected and shares the same DNA.
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