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TIL that Neanderthals Buried their Dead Like Modern Humans, Researchers Say

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X09bk TIL the "world's most photographed tree," the Lone Cypress at Pebble Beach in California, is held up by wires and cement
0wQVL TIL the US had nuclear-armed suicide commandos called Green Light Teams
NXgMN TIL of the 21 demands. Demands made during WW1 from Japan to China which effectively puppets it. China leaked it to the US and UK who pressured successfully for Japan to drop the most extreme demand.
Odba TIL that a child was prosecuted as an adult for having naked images of himself on his own phone
o8aW TIL Bolivia’s largest prison, San Pedro, has a society within itself, with no guards inside the walls. It has shops and restaurants run by inmates. Inmates elect their own leaders, get jobs to pay for their cell’s rent, and can even live with their wives and children