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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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d8ay8 TIL In Japan there is a village, Inakadate where Locals turned their Rice Paddy fields into artworks using different colored rice plants as a way to boost tourism and contribute to the village’s rich culture. The drawings are inspired from local geography and Japanese folklore. It's Beautiful.
Z8BXv TIL about George Cassiday, the Man in the Green Hat. During Prohibition, Cassiday supplied alcohol to members of Congress, including those who voted for prohibition in the first place. After ten years, when the story broke, the public's outrage contributed the repeal of the 18th Amendment.
ADrAo TIL of the feedback sandwich, the recommended method for managers to give negative feedback, by sandwiching the negative remark between two positive ones
5YnVQ TIL of Operation Merlin where the CIA carried out a plan to send Iran flawed blueprints to a nuclear bomb in order to delay their nuclear program. They sent the blueprints by way of a defected Russian nuclear scientist who noticed the flaws and included proposed corrections to Iran.
Y76xW TIL that during the 1996 Olympics, Atlanta restaurant The Varsity sold a pin featuring onion rings arranged in the shape of the Olympic rings. The International OIympic Committee felt this was trademark infringement and had the pins banned and confiscated.