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TIL Neanderthals sailed the Mediterranean. Stone tools, of the kind made by Neanderthals, were found in areas that were known to be distant islands at the time.

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m1oPv TIL that Ilona Staller, aka Cicciolina, a former porn star and Italian MP, offered to have sex with Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in return for peace in the region. She first made the offer while in office, renewed it in October 2002, and extended the same proposal to Osama bin Laden in April 2006
Lk0N9 TIL that a study in 2008 claimed that consumer information regarding health would be ineffective "if content exceeds a 7th-grade reading level, which is the average American reading level identified by the United States Department of Health and Human Services."
W7NDo TIL that the Bengal famine of 1770 took place between 1769 and 1773 during which the British were ruling some territories in India. In the Bengal famine, around 10 million people died.
d8dL9 TIL studies have found coffee drinkers (those who drink 3-5 cups per day) have a more “efficient” brain than those who don't drink coffee. MRI scans found coffee drinkers have quicker connectivity in the cerebellum, the right precuneus, and the right insular.
0mgA TIL Gandhi waves around nukes in Civilization because a glitch in Civ 1 (where Gandhi’s aggressive stat, set at 1, became negative upon completion of democracy) and since -1 was not a stat the game reverted it to the maximum aggressive stat, and that’s how Gandhi became a warmonger.