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TIL while both tea and coffee plants produce caffeine, this trait evolved independently - meaning caffeine production developed at least twice.

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ADVm4 TIL about the Makapansgat Pebble, a waterworn piece of Jasper that unmistakably resembles a human face. This pebble was carried a great distance to a South African cave by an Australopithecus hominid around 3,000,000 years ago. It is the earliest known evidence for human visual-symbolic thought.
kepg TIL In 2005 , the United Nations Deemed SCOTLAND “The Most Violent Country in The Developed World”
v1OoD TIL: The Walt Disney Company is the second largest purchaser of explosive devices, right behind the U.S. Department of Defense.
Pk6Z TIL King Leupold II of Belgium was responsible for the genocide of 10 million Congolese in the late 1800’s
wRQ6 TIL humans hadn’t detected any planets outside of our solar system until 1991, just 26 years ago. Before then, we had no evidence that planets existed around any other star in the universe.