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TIL Neanderthals’ tracheal anatomy suggests they had high-pitched, raspy voices, like Julia Child.

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e0wL6 TIL that an engineer at NASA spent 15 years trying to become an astronaut and was rejected 14 times before finally being selected in 1998.
x6bPo TIL that Paintball guns are also known as 'paintball markers' because they have been used by forestry personnel to mark trees and ranchers to mark wandering cattle.
Y7Dwd TIL that the popular 90’s song “Macarena” was actually a remix to the original made by Los Del Rio.
NXdAJ TIL of the discovery of chemotherapy. During WWII it was discovered that mustard gas reduced white blood cell counts. In the 1940s, two pharmacologists examined the effects of mustard gas in treating lymphoma in mice. They then treated a patient with nonHodgkin's lymphoma with the chemical agent.
XEKpj TIL during the 1967 war between Biafra and Nigeria, Biafra established a puppet state called the Republic of Benin, that lasted one day before being occupied by Nigeria.