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TIL they found a 7500 year old toy car in Turkey which may be the earliest evidence of the wheel. It has two axles, four wheels and a cabin/seating area.

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8amrb TIL a male baboon in Australia being transported from a research facility to get a vasectomy escaped with 2 female baboons when their cage broke. The trio was captured after 2 hrs of freedom & the vasectomy was postponed. The females reportedly had been brought along to reduce the male's stress.
Lykr TIL Icelanders can easily read old norse, dead language that was spoken in scandinavia 1000 years ago because written Icelandic has changed so little.
770r TIL Credit card “chip” technology (aka EMV) that is being rolled out now in the US is almost 25 years old
LQolp TIL that a season of Super Sentai (The show that Power Rangers take fight footage from) ended with a ranger getting killed by a mugger.
Ka8R TIL livid is the color opposite to brown