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85BX TIL that after the 1628 Batavia disaster, two dutch sailors were left to die in Australia…or so everyone thought. A century later, British settlers found unusually light-skinned Aborigines in the area that suggest the two marooned sailors may have actually thrived instead.
b9YOa TIL that humans weren't the first species to discover agriculture. That honor belongs to multiple species of ants (and termites) who beat us to it by 50-60 million years.
KOm46 TIL that after the Persian King Khosrow razed the Byzantine city of Antioch he moved the citizens to a new city he name Wēh Antīōk Khosrow literally, "better than Antioch, Khosrow built this"
E1Oow TIL about Anthony Ervin, a swimmer who won a gold medal at the 2000 Olympics, retired at 22, begun abusing drugs, at one moment being hardly able to raise from a sofa for days on end. In 2011 he got back into swimming, and at the 2016 Olympics became the oldest swimmer to win a gold medal.
veK4 TIL there was only 1 group in World Cup History to end with a 4-way tie