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TIL American spies had to be taught not to slouch and lean on things to blend in with Europeans

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0d0EL TIL of the Kebaran culture- 21,000-13,000 BCE- hunter-gatherer-foragers who used stone tools but possessed bow and arrow technology, grain grinding tools (all stone) and who had a role in the domestication of dogs. They also used symbolic art and created markings whose purpose is not yet known.
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7M0M TIL that Nazi prison guards would perform tickle torture on inmates.