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TIL that there is evidence that Neanderthals may have been a seafaring people, sailing from the mainland to the island of Crete 130,000 years ago.

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v4JK TIL that Michael Eakin, a PA court justice, has been criticized for writing his opinions as poems, such as “A deal is a deal, if fairly undertaken/and we find disclosure was fair and unshaken.” He believes that “You have an obligation as a judge to be right, but you have no obligation to be dull.”
j66rM TIL that in the operatic song in The Fifth Element, composer Eric Sierra "purposely wrote un-singable things" so she’d sound like an alien. When opera singer Inva Muls came for the part, "she sang 85% of what [Eric] thought was technically impossible", the rest being assembled in the studio.
gMyJW TIL of Huo Tuo, a surgeon who invented general anesthesia in 100-200 AD. After being sentenced to death for refusing to exclusively treat a king, his scrolls were burned when a guard refused to preserve them. Soon after, the king's son died of illness and the king said he wished he never killed Tuo.
neebB TIL On September 11, 1980, Joseph Scalise and a colleague, Arthur Rachel, undertook a $3.6 million jewel robbery in broad daylight at Graff's jewelry store in London's busy Knightsbridge area, stealing the 45-carat Marlborough diamond, along with many other jewels.
E6rx TIL: A group of scientists believe Dolphins should be treated as non-human “persons”, with their rights to life and liberty respected as they are self-aware