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OGjPe TIL evidence of a precursor to warfare has been found at Nataruk in Kenya. Remains of at least 27 individuals have been found and dated to 7550–8550 BC. The condition of the skeletons indicates that a massacre took place as hands were bound and skulls were smashed by blunt force.
wmko TIL that the term “Shotgunning” marijuana came from soldiers in Vietnam. Troops would commonly empty a shotgun, stick a smoking bowl in the chamber, and blow into it. Other soldiers would inhale the smoke coming out the tip of the barrel, passing the shotgun around.
x6eJD TIL That the character who first said the phrase "fortune favours the bold" - Turnus, in the Aeneid, spends the rest of the story suffering military defeats before he's killed and heads to the underworld, miserable, at the end of the last book.
EggW7 TIL Angela Orosz was one of the only two surviving babies ever born in Auschwitz
wLJNW TIL that in 1700s Transylvania the element Tellerium was discovered. This element is poisonus and, upon consumption, makes the breath of its consumer wreak of garlic.