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

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EgdeV TIL that fellow serial killers Richard Cottingham (The New York Ripper) and Rodney Alcala (The Game Show Killer), worked in the same office together.
LeNp TIL to pay for his film Clerks, Kevin Smith sold most of his comic book collection, maxed out several credit cards, used some of the funds for his college education, spent insurance money awarded for a car he lost in a flood, and worked in the convenience store used in the film.
KYK66 TIL about PCR, which is a technique to make billions of copies of a specific DNA from a very small sample. The mix containing DNA is repeatedly heated and cooled, this breaks the DNA molecule and then duplicates it exponentially. The secret? A bacteria living in hot springs has a special enzyme
yVNb8 TIL former UK Prime Minister John Major's dad was a vaudeville performer and garden gnome salesman, among a few other things
xV70k TIL : The "thousand-yard stare" is a phrase often used to describe the blank, unfocused gaze of soldiers who have become emotionally detached from the horrors around them. It is also sometimes used more generally to describe the look of dissociation among victims of other types of trauma.