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TIL the oldest living plant is at least 43,000 years old

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x641o TIL, the first Graecopithecus skeleton was found in 1944 by German soldiers digging a bunker. Graecopithecus were an ancestor of homo sapiens that lived about 7.2 million years ago. The bones were damaged by Allied bombing in the closing days of WWII.
Lead TIL certain dogs will nip at your heel due to its built in herding traits to bring your group together
aRRL TIL of the Golem Effect, the principle that we essentially meet the negative expectations held by those superior to us such as management, teachers, parents etc.
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WkVlA TIL: A professional big game hunter died during a hunt when a member of his group fired at a storming elephant cow and the animal fell on him.