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TIL Archeologists excavating burial sites from 4000 BC have discovered clay pots repaired with glue made from tree sap.

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mx0ex TIL in 1952, at the age of 18, Donnie Dunagan became the Marine's youngest-ever drill instructor. He served 3 tours in Vietnam and was wounded several times, earning 3 purple hearts. He also kept a secret for over 50 years that he was a child actor and the voice of young Bambi.
r1R0 TIL John Ratzenberger (Cliff Calvin from Cheers) has been in every Pixar film to date.
a8jw9 TIL the Cretaceous-era turtle Kallokibotion bajazidi’s scientific name literally means “beautiful box of Bajazid” and that Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás, the paleontologist who named the species, named it that because the shape of the turtle’s shell reminded him of his lover Bajazid Doda’s butt.
M7LRA TIL that city pairs Wilmington DE/NC and Charleston WV/SC are almost the same distance apart, ~472 miles.
b6evQ TIL there is a 1/25th scale version of the Suez Canal in a French lake to train ship captains.