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TIL there are around 35,000 archaeological sites in Israel, a country the size of New Jersey

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GYrJ1 TIL Elephant tusks are starting to get smaller and in the future more Elephants will be without tusks because we killed most elephants with big tusks and removed them from gene pool.
jNpoX TIL Panty Raids, where huge groups of men would raid the women’s dorms to steal their panties, became a massive college fad during the 1950’s. The raids, often cheered on by the women who opened windows tossing out lingerie, even resulted in a 3000 man raid at Berkeley costing 12,000$ in damage.
YgNZ TIL that the LDS church still officially teaches against interracial marriage, generally.
Jbd1 TIL In 1967, a fighter pilot purposely flew through enemy air defenses to make enemy aircraft leave him alone, then flew his damaged aircraft back into combat and destroyed two missile sites defending a target. Allowing 70 of the 72 other friendly aircraft to survive the mission.
wLEdo TIL that blue eyes don’t have blue pigment and are instead blue for the same reason that water and the sky are blue: they scatter light so that only blue light reflects out