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TIL up until the 1850’s there was no “left and right” shoe, all were identical

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OwY4 TIL Elephants are compassionate toward the weak and altruistic toward other species
Brmer TIL of Toshiba’s 300M yen robbery. In which a man dressed as a police officer intercepted a money delivery under a guise of needing to ‘inspect’ the car for explosives. After lighting a road flare under the car, the thief drove the car and money to ‘safety’, never to be seen again.
x9n7 TIL malaria has killed more than half of all people that have existed after the Stone Age
rN4Be TIL of the grave of Nancy Kerlin Barnett. Buried in the middle of a county road in Indiana, when her grandson heard there were plans of demolishing her grave to build the road, he camped out with a shotgun for weeks to protect it. They built the road around her.
VM79G TIL that New Zealand was undiscovered and completely devoid of human beings no more than 800 years ago.