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TIL Neanderthals had larger brains and much stronger bodies than modern day humans and even sailed thousands of years before us.

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n5YW TIL on September 11, 1857, a wagon train heading through Utah toward California was attacked by a Mormon Militia. The militia had disguised themselves as Indians, but once it was suspected that their cover was blown, the Mormons feigned a truce and slaughtered 120 men, women, and children.
wLZG1 TIL: Of Dilsey Pope of Columbus, Georgia, a free woman of color, who owned her husband. After they quarreled, she sold him to a white slaveowner; he refused to sell him back once the couple had reconciled.
W79ZL TIL that one in 20 Americans say they are willing to use violence against “a person who does not share their religion."
gMLZD TIL Radioactive steel accidentally contaminated with Cobolt-60 was used to build hundreds of apartments in Taiwan in 1980, that were occupied for 20 years, and some studies show beneficial outcomes from the exposure.
wLJxM TIL David E. Durston, the director of 'I Drink Your Blood' and 'Manhole' is associated with two suspicious deaths. Durston had a fight with actress Carol Wayne, 3 days later she was found dead by fishermen. Durston visited actress Diane Linkletter at 3am, she jumped out a 6th story window at 9am.