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TIL Spontaneous Human Combustion Is (Almost Definitely) a Myth

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rNEM0 TIL About the Bantu Expansion where in 10 waves of migration between 2000 BCE and 1000 CE Bantu peoples from the area around modern day Cameroon settled nearly all of Sub-Saharan Africa eliminating, displacing or absorbing most of the indigenous peoples of the region.
VBwQ8 TIL that despite retiring in 2021, starting this season baseball player Chris Davis will receive from the Baltimore Orioles $9.16 million a year for the next 3 years. He'll receive $3.5 million a year for the following 7 years and starting in 2033, he’ll receive $1.4 million a year until 2037.
V090 TIL An eagle was given a 3d-printed prostate beak after her real one was damaged after being shot.
KOQPa TIL The reason why we view neanderthals as hunched over and degenerate is that the first skeleton to be found was arthritic.
p8m5O TIL that a comet's tail points away from the sun, and don't indicate the direction it's moving