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E1Ewp Til During the 'Well of Souls' scene in Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark most of the Cobras were Legless Lizards.
GANM7 TIL that life imprisonment without possibility of parole has been deemed illegal by the European Court of Human Rights.
vP47D TIL: The oldest humanoid archeological find in Japan dates back over 22,000 years. It contained the fossils of 2 males and 3-7 females. It is believed that they were speared, cannibalized, and then thrown into the fissure. The males were 155cm tall while the females were 140cm.
ZBWv TIL about Irena Sendler who (assisted by some two dozen other Żegota members) smuggled approximately 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto and then provided them with false identity documents and shelter outside the Ghetto, saving those children from the Holocaust.
v6j8 TIL that in 1890 an Oberlin College professor gave a lecture on then-rare aluminum, stating ‘if anyone could make this on a commercial scale, he would be a benefactor to the world and would also make a great fortune.’ In attendance was Charles Hall, who took him up on the challenge – and succeeded.