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TIL the ancient city of Gobekli Tepe in Turkey was built ca. 10,000 BC, is twice as old as Stonehenge, and completely disrupts our ideas of human development and agriculture.

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DQPde TIL in 1997 a Gorilla helped apprehend a criminal in the Johannesburg Zoo.
XErDX TIL of Harold Brown, who in 1978, plummeted 29 floors inside the San Francisco Transamerica building, shouting ""whoopee" all the way down. He survived the fall and was heard singing Camptown Races in the ambulance.
VMV1Q TIL that there is a bear company in Vermont that will do ‘surgery’ on your stuffed friend and send you pictures of their recovery!
RkE7 TIL that the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan was so powerful that it actually moved the entire island of Honshu 8 feet east and tilted the Earth’s axis between 4 and 10 inches
69Rb7 TIL a Dutch court ordered a 41-year-old man, who judges said had fathered between 550-600 children, to stop donating sperm. The court considered it “sufficiently plausible” that the children has or could have negative psychosocial consequences including problems around identity & fears of incest.