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TIL that Neanderthals are often depicted as degenerate because the first skeleton found happened to have arthritis.

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MeBDV TIL: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas authored a legal opinion that no other Justice signed on to arguing that the 1st Amendment should not protect anyone under 18 or non-citizens.
l76Y7 TIL that an elderly Salvador Dali became severely burned as his excessive use of the assistance button next to his bed caused it to short-circuit and set the bed aflame.
OGYla TIL dolphins are voluntary air breathers and it has been suggested they can kill themselves by consciously stopping breathing
dDjNB TIL in 2009, Claire Boucher attempted to float down the Mississippi River in a homemade houseboat filled with live chickens, a sewing machine and 20 pounds of potatoes. She failed. A year later she released her successful debut studio album. She is known professionally as Grimes.
GbMG TIL the Great Sphinx was so named about 2000 years after its construction. What name the creators called their statue is unknown and there are no inscriptions anywhere describing its construction or original purpose.