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TIL that Göbekli Tepe in Turkey is the oldest known temple complex in the world, built over 11,000 years ago, thousands of years before Stonehenge or the Pyramids, and it was constructed by prehistoric hunter-gatherers before the invention of farming or writing.

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6EWP8 TIL Zebra stripes are actually white, not black. It was thought previously that zebras were white animals with black stripes since some zebras have white underbellies. Embryological evidence, however, shows that the animal's background color is black and the white stripes and bellies are additions.
b9J0Z TIL about crystal radio, a radio receiver made with simple parts that needs no external power source, all it needs is a radio signal to produce sound.
BvVb TIL that football player Mardy Gilyard was kicked out of the University of Cincinnati and owed the school $10,000. he then worked 4 jobs simultaneously and slept in his car just to get back into school, eventually becoming the leading wide receiver in UC history
bab4 TIL that in 2006, the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia launched a $1.2 million program to retrain prostitutes as nursing-home caregivers. A supporter explained they had “good people skills, aren’t easily disgusted, and have zero fear of physical contact.”
gMmb4 TIL that James Franco went back to college after filming Spider-Man 3. After taking 62 credits per quarter, he graduated from UCLA in 2 years; he then went on to attend Brooklyn College's, Columbia University's, and NYU's MFA programs. Afterwards he attended Yale to get his Ph.D in English.