Wallace
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TIL of Minik Wallace, a Greenlandic child brought to New York in 1897 and studied by a museum, who held custody. After many of his companions died of tuberculosis, the museum faked a burial of his father and secretly put his skeleton on display. 20 years later, Minik would die in 1918 of influenza.
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TIL a line in Indonesia between the islands of Bali and Lombok marks a clear boundary of biogeography. Most animals are found on either one side or the other, not both. The islands are only 35 km apart. It is called the Wallace line, after a British naturalist that identified it in 1859.
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