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TIL that a black hole could fit in your pocket

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9Y4E7 TIL Humans lived inland in North America 1,000 years before scientists suspected. Stone tools and other artifacts found in Idaho hint that the First Americans lived here 16,000 years ago — long before an overland path to the continent existed. It’s more evidence humans arrived via a coastal route.
Ooa4e TIL some Jewish males celebrate a second Bar Mitzvah at age 83, under the logic that the Torah states a normal lifespan is 70 years, thus an 83-year-old can be considered 13 in a second lifetime. This practice is becoming more common as people live longer, healthier lives
70Rr TIL 16 year olds in Canada cannot consent to anal sex unless they are married. Regular sex is OK.
yBww TIL that the Harvard Law Review published a satirical article mocking a feminist legal scholar on the anniversary of her violent murder and distributed it its annual gala, to which her husband had been invited
9xvQ TIL that 14yo Davontae Sanford was coerced into confessing to a quadruple homicide by police in Detroit in 2007. The actual killer later confessed, but Davontae remains in prison serving a 37 to 90 year sentence.