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TIL of the Bulwer-Lyton fiction contest, in which entrants are invited "to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels"

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0d0EL TIL of the Kebaran culture- 21,000-13,000 BCE- hunter-gatherer-foragers who used stone tools but possessed bow and arrow technology, grain grinding tools (all stone) and who had a role in the domestication of dogs. They also used symbolic art and created markings whose purpose is not yet known.
XEKME TIL the first huge ammonium nitrate disaster happened 104 years before the Beirut explosion in Faversham, Kent, UK, but was hushed up by authorities during the first world war. 108 people lost their lives and many more were injured.
XEgRP TIL of Poto and Cabengo, two girls who were emotionally neglected by their family from birth and invented their own language as a result.
wo0xM TIL about a 1960s era Canadian device that supposedly tested whether or not you were a homosexual
yQDrJ TIL that while American mathematician David Blackwell was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, he was prevented from attending lectures at Princeton University because of his race. In 1965 was the first African American named to the National Academy of Sciences.