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TIL prehistoric cave art may have been an early form of cinema. When torch light is simulated at the historic hearth, superimposed images on the wall appeared to move. Rhinos charge, antelope leap and arrows fly.

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9Y5B7 TIL about Navy Seaman Charles Jackson French who, after his ship the USS Gregory was sunk in WWII, swam for 6-8 hours towing a raft of 15 survivors through shark-infested waters. He later received the Navy Cross.
OoEoX TIL of William Alexander Morgan who was an American citizen from Ohio who became one of just only two non-Cuban men to reach the rank of Comandante during the Cuban revolution. The other man was Che Guevara.
9YrK6 TIL that people in the final stages of hypothermia end up trying to enter small, enclosed spaces. This is called terminal burrowing, and is believed by researchers to be an autonomous process, controlled by the brain stem.
jgEv TIL In 1965, a Ukrainian farmer dug up the lower jawbone of a mammoth. Further excavations revealed the presence of 4 huts, made up of a total of 149 mammoth bones. These dwellings, dating back some 15,000 years, were determined to have been some of the oldest shelters ever built.
0w7YA TIL in 2009, Filipino employee Amador Bernabe was kicked out of his job for using water, instead of toilet paper, to clean himself during toilet visits.