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TIL the oldest ceramic ever found is from China and it's 20000 years old. Pottery appeared during the last ice age, long before Stone Age humans took up farming and animal husbandry

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XEBbr TIL of the Sea Peoples. They were a group of raiders and pirates that nearly toppled ancient Egypt, conquering almost half the country. Archaeologists do not know anything about where they came from or who they went afterwards.
RLkl TIL Tupac may have accidentally shot a six year old boy in 1992, but was never criminally charged despite evidence the fatal bullet came from a handgun registered to him. He later settled a wrongful death suit brought by the boy’s mother out of court for $300K-$500K
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PYoDn TIL that the human brain can process and correctly identify images seen for as little as 13 milliseconds.