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TIL the world's oldest known cave painting dates back over 45,000 years!

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6E6K7 TIL Studies in 'ice cores' found in Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania - the mountain which supplies the Nile with its water - have revealed that a drought did take place around 3600 years ago - around the time the Bible sets Joseph's story in Egypt
AjZd TIL there is no December 30, 2011 in the history of the Pacific Ocean islands of Samoa and Tokelau as the day was skipped when these islands moved their time zone from the last time zone east of the international date line to the first west of the date line
4kEpN TIL: If nuclear war has started, only 150 nukes would destroy humanity. There are 13,800 NUKES on earth.