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TIL that 5000 years ago people in what is now Scotland carved intricate baseball sized stone balls in varied shapes and we don't know why.

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X06VR TIL starting in 1957 and through the next thirty years, Hanna-Barbera produced 249 individual cartoon series for television—totaling over 1,200 hours of original episodes.
9YeDG TIL of a £4m art heist Manchester in 2003 , including a Van Gogh painting. It is believed the culprit tipped off the police and revealed the location of the stolen artwork. Stating that his intentions were not to steal , but to highlight woeful security.
6EELl TIL you lose about a pound of weight everynight while you sleep, just by breathing.
jNJ5M TIL the Jamestown settlers (first permanent English colony in America) were cannibals and "were clearly interested in cheek meat, muscles of the face, tongue, and brain."
nWwlW TIL that AI systems have developed their own languages to communicate with each other, a phenomenon known as emergent language, which researchers are still striving to fully understand.