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TIL baby aspirin isn't for babies and Reye's syndrome is real

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l701a TIL of the Schöningen Spears, ten intact wooden spears discovered in a German mine between 1994-99. Strikingly similar to modern competition javelins, the 400,000 year old spears are the oldest worked wooden weapons ever found, and suggest early hominids used very sophisticated hunting techniques.
VMrw0 TIL the answer to a very commonly asked question: Why Is Caillou Bald? It is as simple as the fact the the tv show is based off of a children's book where he started off as a baby and as he grew up the publishers decided to keep him bald so that he would stay recognizable.
6EAdJ TIL the descendants of the ancient Assyrians still exist in their ancestral homeland, and continue to identify as Assyrian. They constitute over 2 million today, and speak the modernized form of the Aramaic language.
Y677 TIL there were no red M&Ms for over a decade because a common red food coloring was found to cause cancer. M&Ms never contained the cancer causing FD&C Red No. 2, but Mars still pulled all their red candies to avoid consumer confusion.
loOPG TIL of the "grammar vigilante" in Bristol, he sneaks out at night time to fix mistakes and add apostrophes on different business signs around the city.