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TIL the oldest known piece of “art” is a 300,000-year-old fossilized cuttlefish bone, called the Erfoud manuport, which an early human carried around because it looked exactly like a penis. Humanity has literally not changed at all.

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J1gYk TIL The Geneva Convention allows belligerents to take patients of hospital ships as prisoners of war, but not the staff
p8Xo4 TIL about the Windows XP wallpaper. The image is called "Bliss" and it's a supposedly unedited image of a hill found on the Los Carneros American Viticultural Area. The photographer, Charles O'Rear, says he took it on his way to visit his girlfriend. Eventually in 2000, he was contacted by Microsoft
d8WeE TIL Computers can only generate 'true random' numbers by measuring unpredictable real-world physical phenomenon such as radioactive-decay or noise, whilst many generate 'psuedo-random' numbers which are not truly random and are produced using mathematical algorithms based on an initial value.
7rQNM TIL the record for the greatest 24-hour temperature change ever recorded on earth occurred in 1972 in Loma, Montana when the temperature rose from -54°F (-47°C) on January 14th to 49°F (9°C) on January 15th: an astonishing 103°F (56°C) rise
J18vV TODAY I LEARNED Apples you buy from Supermarket can be a year old.