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TIL evidence of persistence hunting primarily comes from a single researcher and has no where near the support in Anthropology as it does in pop-science and running circles.

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W7kM4 TIL that Nikola Tesla was born around midnight, between July 9 and July 10, 1856 during a fierce lightning storm.
WdbY TIL in 1976 there was a wine tasting competition in Paris that blindly compared Californian wines to French wines. California won and the lone reporter covering the event was blacklisted for reporting it.
1a9p7 TIL : In Victorian UK drunks would literally hang over a rope to sleep for 2-cents/pence
rRNjw TIL Zack Snyder said he would like to do a film about George Washington at the Battle of Trenton in the style of '300'. Robot Chicken joked about him doing exactly that in 2009 in a short bit: “1776. It aint accurate, but it will blow your f-ing mind!”
P174O TIL the man who invented the chiffon cake was named Baker