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TIL Men are like apes when competing for status

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ELvX TIL in 2015, Spanish workers destroyed a 6,000-year-old Neolithic tomb, mistaking it for a broken picnic table. They replaced it with a ‘better’ picnic table
XELdr TIL, potential new antibiotics were discovered due to research into folklore that putting Russian brown frogs into a milk bucket would keep the milk from going sour.
6E6aQ TIL the phenomenon of forgetting things when you enter a room is called "Doorway Effect". Crossing from one side of the door to the other side causes a mental block in your brain to erase the old memory and make a room to a new one
JVE8 TIL that Rob Knox, known as Marcus Belby in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, was stabbed to death in 2008 at age 18 in South London after defending his younger brother from two men, one of which was armed with two knives.
YpdDZ TIL that old timers in Alaskans are known as “sourdoughs.” This is because Experienced miners and other settlers frequently carried a pouch of starter either around their neck or on a belt to keep it active in freezing Alaska winters.