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TIL in 1954, archaeologists excavating an 8th-century Viking settlement in Sweden found a Buddha statuette from India

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j6Amn TIL about Erich Hartmann, a German WW2 fighter pilot who is credited with 352 official kills, the highest scoring fighter pilot of all time.
BA9W TIL that the average attention span for humans seems to have dropped from 12 seconds in the year 2000, to 8 seconds in 2016.
N7DPb TIL policeman Bob Geary used a dummy as his partner. A new police chief disallowed its usage, so Geary worked to put the usage of the dummy on the ballot. The referendum passed and Geary used the dummy until his retirement 7 years later, at which time the mayor declared the day "Officer Geary Day."
AmPa TIL that when Tesla moved to Colorado to work on artificial lightning, thunder from one experiment was heard 15 miles away, people saw sparks jumping from their feet to the ground, butterflies were swirling in circles with blue halos around their wings and the whole town was left in the dark.
QVgE TIL of the frequency illusion (also known as the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon),the phenomenon in which people who just learn or notice something start seeing it everywhere.