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TIL researchers made a 3-D virtual chest reconstruction of a 60,000-yr-old male Neanderthal skeleton called "Kebara 2" or “Moshe”. They found that he didn't have a hunched posture but would stand upright with a straight spine; he had a similar-size chest to humans today but greater lung capacity.

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BrMld TIL Chinese dumplings are called "Peking ravioli" in the Boston area because when Joyce Chen opened her Chinese restaurant in Cambridge she thought it would sound more appealing to the large Italian population in the area.
AD0yg TIL the Roadrunner not only eats rattlesnakes, but they beat the absolute shit out of them before they eat them.
Bj0D TIL that Queen Elizabeth I had a vast spy network and one of her spies signed his reports with “007.” This was later used by Ian Fleming, writer of James Bond.
POae TIL Chevy Chase is the only SNL cast member to be banned from ever hosting SNL again. “He once suggested a sketch, In 1985, where Terry Sweeney (an openly gay cast member), had AIDS, and the sketch showed viewers how much weight he lost every week.”
5VlDk TIL that during the first 4 days after the United Kingdom entered World War II, over 400,000 dogs and cats — some 26 percent of London’s pets — were voluntarily put to death by their owners without any Government direction, due to fears that they could not be properly cared for during the war.