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TIL researchers recently discovered an Obsidian handaxe-making workshop from 1.2 million years ago in the Awash valley in Ethiopia

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logRN TIL the namesake for the Marshall Tucker Band is alive and lives in South Carolina. Marshall Tucker, who is 95 & blind, is a retired piano tuner.
XW1j TIL that between 2010-2015, the life expectancy in Botswana, due to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, dropped from 70.7 years to only 31.6 years.
Z8mxR TIL the war between Israel and Egypt in 1967 ended up trapping 14 unlucky Cargo Ships in the Suez Canal for eight years. During this period crew members drank so much beer, they speculated there must be five feet of beer bottles on the lake's floor.
mx4xE TIL that the Hungarian crown has a bent cross on the top because somebody in the 17th century put the crown into an iron chest and closed it without having placed in it properly. The bent cross is used a symbol of Hungary since then.
9wlAr TIL that the University of Odense in Denmark houses the world's largest collection of brains, taken from mental health patients over four decades until the 1980s, with a total of 9,479 brains stored on countless shelves in its basement.