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TIL that a 2400 year old corpse was so well preserved, that the finders reported it to the police as a murder.

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axjb TIL that Buddhism, Jainism, Confucianism, Taoism, and Zoroastrianism were all formed in the 6th century BC. That century also gave us Pythagoras the philosopher, Xerxes I of Persia, and Sun Tzu, the author of “The Art of War”.
RJk7 TIL that Alert, Nunavut, a military signals intelligence facility located at the northernmost tip of Canadian soil, is closer to Moscow than it is to Ottawa.
woplE TIL that in 2007, hunters found in a bowhead whale a 90 mm head of an explosive bomb lance of a model manufactured between 1879 and 1885, allowing to estimate the animal's age at between 115 and 130 years.
Wkv74 TIL of the "Tumi" scalpel, believed to be the oldest surgical instrument to exist (8000 BC). It was used for trepanation, the art of drilling a hole into the skull. By opening the skull, tribes believed that it would allow the demons that caused headaches, melancholy or epilepsy to escape the body.
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