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TIL the oldest known cave painting was discovered in Indonesia in 2019, and dates back 45,000 years.

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nWnBB TIL that Edward Teller, the father of the hydrogen bomb, once proposed a 10 gigaton bomb. It would have been 670,000x stronger than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, and 200x stronger than the Tsar Bomba, the largest bomb ever created. It's estimated to have been able to set all of France on fire.
l4rr TIL of the Native American “Shame Pole”, a totem pole erected to embarrass people for not payment of debts or ridicule misdeeds. In 2007 one such pole was erected in Alaska depicting the CEO of Exxon to highlight an unpaid debt of $5m owed from the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
koE5 TIL Chef Ramsey left one of his first big kitchen positions because he didn’t like the bullying and rages of others.
gML1y TIL that the Yamaha logo is actually 3 tuning forks
8aXoL TIL that Dionne Quan, voice actress of Nickelodeon characters such as Kimi from The Rugrats, is legally blind and has all of her scripts printed in Braille.