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wobMP TIL Approximately 70,000 years ago, the human population was between 5,000 and 10,000
P1dWV TIL: In 1984, geologist Dale Guthrie took a piece of neck meat from a 50000 year old bison mummified in permafrost, cooked it into a stew, then ate it with his wife. He and his wife suffered no ill effects
b6Qy9 TIL actor Benedict Cumberbatch once stopped his Uber near Baker Street when he saw a cyclist being attacked by four men trying to steal his bike. He jumped out, physically pulled the assailants off the cyclist, and shouted at them until they fled. The cyclist was unharmed.