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TIL there is clear evidence that shows empathy and care towards disabled family members within early human and neanderthal groups. Individuals who could not aid in hunting and gathering still were taken care of.

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j6oZp TIL Of the vegetable lamb of tartary. How northern Europeans explained cotton in the middle ages.
na47 TIL that a blurry image is not always lost. There’s a program called SmartDeblur that can recover some types of blurry images.
JYlV8 TIL that Beach Boys lead songwriter and musical icon Brian Wilson made a hip-hop song
gMgkA TIL a theremin is a musical instrument that depends on electromagnetic fields created around its antennae, which players move their hands or fingers around to change pitch or volume.
grxP8 TIL When the 1930s musician Russ Columbo died from an accidental gunshot, his siblings went to great lengths to conceal the news from his mother, who had a heart condition. They wrote fake letters from him and used records to simulate his radio show. This continued until she died a decade later.