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TIL : Early humans arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa around 55,000 BCE.

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xVw0g TIL that the 1987 film 'Good Morning Vietnam' was only loosely based on the life of Sgt. Adrian Cronauer. He passed away in 2018. His tombstone reads "Vietnam DJ, Beloved".
kJnj4 TIL that in the early days of Fed-Ex, there was one time the company couldn't afford the fuel bill for their planes, so the founder took the company's last $5,000 and went to Las Vegas and won $27,000 playing blackjack, and kept the company afloat.
dDZpr TIL Edgar Allen Poe was inspired to write his famous poem 'The Raven' by an actual, taxidermized raven that was once owned by Charles Dickens. it is now on display in the the Free Library of Philadelphia.
pbl8 TIL in 1999 Serbian forces shot down a US F-117 Nighthawk (first stealth bomber, worth around $111 million) by adapting what was considered “obsolete” Soviet long waveband radar positioned correctly. The radar detected the opened bomb bay doors.
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