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TIL humans were almost certainly deep-sea fishing over 42,000 years ago.

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9YKwr TIL that the character of Abed Nadir from Community is one of the few pop culture characters seen as a reasonably accurate representation of Autism, and is especially important because he rarely falls into the Pinocchio Syndrome (I just want to be a real boy!) trope so common in movies and tv.
XPdR TIL in 1992, a Lawyer and a Judge were looking for files on a former prisoner in a police station near Paraguay. Instead, they stumbled upon archives documenting an international conspiracy involving the torture, murder, and imprisonment of 480,000 people, now known as the Archives of Terror.
kl85 TIL French poet Gérard de Nerval supposedly took a lobster on walks in the Palais Royal gardens in Paris on the end of a blue silk ribbon, saying “they are peaceful, serious creatures. They know the secrets of the sea, they don’t bark, and they don’t gnaw upon one’s monadic privacy like dogs do.”
LkoE9 TIL Magellan didn't circumnavigate the globe. Magellan only made it to the Philippines, where he started a battle and was killed by natives. It was one of his Captains — Juan Sebastián Elcano 1476 – 1526 — who actually completed the journey, yet historically has not received credit for his journey.
xVwQB TIL that you shouldn’t mix kiwi with dairy products (milk and yoghurt) because actinidain in kiwi breaks down milk proteins making it taste bitter (see no. 6)