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TIL tree rings can reveal the dates of historical hurricanes

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78PkZ Today I learned to keep typing on computers with my back straight and feet flat on the ground using a nice posture since it can cause long-term health issues if you are not sitting properly.
yQyoM TIL in 1954 an archaeologist discovered 1,224 intact pieces of wood from 2500BC under the Great Pyramid of Giza. A boat builder then spent 14 years figuring out how they fit together and un-warping them to assemble the "Khufu ship", visible in a museum today.
GbDE TIL a sub-generation exists called the “Oregon Trail Generation”, and consists of people born in the late ‘70s and early '80s.
neaR9 TIL Journalists and Activists Cant Account to Where Half a Billion in Charitable Donations to Haiti Went
R7V1Q TIL: In the opening credits of Gilligan’s Island, as the SS Minnow sails out of the harbor, flags can be seen in the background flying at half-staff given that the filming of the show’s pilot took place the week of the JFK assassination.