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TIL That there’s a perfectly preserved village in Scotland that’s older than the Egyptian pyramids.

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9wWaD TIL about ternary plots. You can visualise 3 quantities on a 2d triangular graph if they add up to a constant (eg. soil components or colour composition). One graph is “x+y+z=1” which makes a triangle on positive axes, with the regular 3d gridlines intersecting to form triangular ones in the graph.
d8MY9 TIL that J.F.Kennedy bought up to 1200 high grade cuban cigars the day before he ordered a ban on Cuban imports!
neZaY TIL of a US Navy pilot in 1998 who flew too low against regulations, cutting a gondola's cable and killing 20 people. He and his crew were put on trial and found not guilty of involuntary manslaughter and negligent homicide
JYyPB TIL: More than half a million people in central China are believed to have become infected with HIV from selling their blood to local government-run blood banks in the mid and late 1990s.
VM10k TIL Jefferson’s first draft of the Declaration of Independence criticized King George III for enslaving Africans, and for over-ruling Virginia’s attempt to ban Slavery. In it, Jefferson called slavery a “cruel war against human nature.” The draft was struck down by the continental congress.