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TIL that inscribed pottery from the Middle Kingdom of Egypt list three human genders.

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VMVA4 TIL of the 2007 Carancas impact event, where a meteor crashed into the ground near the village of Carancas, Peru. 100-200 people who got near the crash site fell ill, and there were reports of livestock dying in the area. The cause of this was determined to be arsenic poisoning.
b909a TIL Apple ran a full page ad in the Wall Street Journal in 1981 welcoming IBM to the desktop computer market. Even though IBM would become Apple's biggest competitor, Apple felt that IBM's entry into the PC market would legitimatize the industry and ultimately help Apple.
wo6jY TIL that Jim Lovell—the commander of the Apollo 13 mission who was portrayed by Tom Hanks in the 1995 film—had actually already flown to the Moon. He was the command module pilot for the Apollo 8 mission, the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon.
Eg9nP TIL: Slaves made up 65% of South Carolina's population in 1720.
grWQX TIL People in Liverpool, England have reported a certain area as being a hot spot for 'time slips', accidental temporary trips forward or backward in time.