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TIL of mass child sacrifices in Peru between 1000-1500AD.

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1akW4 TIL: The first person to build a programmable humanoid robot was the Arab Muslim scholar Abu Alîzz Al-Jazari in 1206 AD
P1p5O TIL: Telecommunication companies participate in each countries' "spectrum auction" in which they bid on the right to use specific bands of the electromagnetic spectrum for a time period. In the US, the FCC has raised over $60 billion from the bids so far.
4OQg TIL that after a girl in his community was killed by a red-light runner, a 74 year old Chinese man spent an entire day hurling bricks at bad drivers. With his neighborhood cheering him on, he smashed over 30 red-light runners’ cars before the police asked him to stop. (x-post /r/China)
jNO0v TIL that daddy long legs are not the most venomous spider and actually belong to the order of opiliones. Although they are arachnids they are more closely related to scorpions then spiders and do not have any venemous glands
J1J1 TIL that according to an international survey of 5,000 people, 91% of men and 84% of women have fantasized about killing someone.