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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

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wmw8 TIL there are 24 times more empty houses in the United States than homeless people.
m11rp TIL the ISS is only weightless because it's in orbit (therefore constantly falling) not because of its distance from the earth. An airplane at the same altitude, under its own power would have 89% as much gravity as the earth's surface.
rRrmM TIL Félicien Kabuga, who evaded arrest for 26 years, is thought to be responsible for supplying militias with 500,000 machetes which slaughtered 800,000 people in the Rwandan genocide.
xVpY1 TIL in a previous life the Buddha saw a tigress starving and about to eat her cubs. To save the cubs he lept from a cliff to allow the tigress to eat him.
BpRb TIL the French Intelligence services blew up a Greenpeace ship in a New Zealand port, killing a photographer on board.