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TIL that driving instructors have a deep psychological desire to wave at each other even when they don’t know each other. This is perhaps the most British thing I’ve ever seen.

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OoWb7 TIL the oldest known symbolic burial site was found in a cave, south of the modern day city of Nazareth, where a nine-year old was found buried with their legs bent and a deer antler cradled in their arms. The site was dated to circa 92,000 BP, making it about 95,000 years old.
YAJd TIL when it was invented, the sewing machine was controversial, feared to be too sexually stimulating to women
KYXQG TIL modern day heart and lung transplants were heralded by a scientist who once surgically added a second head to a dogs body. The dog lived for almost a month.
a41L TIL Finns are Mongols from central Asia
BrDdk TIL 76% of Vietnamese people share only 6 surnames, with a full 38% of them having the surname Nguyen