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TIL a 2008 study showed growing evidence Syphilis was brought to Europe by Christopher Columbus from the New World.https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2217670/#til #todayilearnedhttps://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1spasv2/til_a_2008_study_showed_growing_evidence_syphilis/

TIL harbor seals have about 100 whiskers that can detect the invisible water trails left behind by fish — like reading the wake of an airplane that already passed. When scientists covered a seal named Filou's whiskers with a nylon stocking, he immediately lost the ability to track prey. He could hunhttps://www.npr.org/2026/04/16/nx-s1-5786687/harbor-seals-whiskers-fish-science#til #todayilearnedhttps://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1soyqxb/til_harbor_seals_have_about_100_whiskers_that_can/

A cave in the Alabama Hills (of east-central California, despite the name) that reminds me of the frosting on a type of Mexican pastries that #TIL are called conchas.#TextureTuesday

#TIL that the Royal Navy started employing female nurses for land-based service in naval hospitals during the 1880s. They weren't commissioned, but were treated as equivalent to junior officers: they had private "cabins" (rooms), were addressed as "Madam", included beside officers in the published Navy List from 1885 onwards, and Sick Bay Attendants had to follow their "requests" the same as orders from the Surgeon.They were not allowed to treat "afflictions of the middle third of the body" in the male sailors, and didn't actually go to sea until 1898.#history #womensHistory #militaryHistory #navalHistory #UKhistory

#TIL about bricks for the blind. How cool is this_ https://bricksfortheblind.org/faqs

TIL about the <menu> tag in HTML 5 - a semantic equivalent to our old pal <ul>. You can use it in place of <ul> for menus. **Pause for Shock**This helps screen readers and other adaptive technologies understand what they are.Using semantically appropriate tags helps improve accessibility.https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/menu#TIL #html5 #accessibility