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TIL: There is an 8,000 year old cave painting of a human gathering honey from a natural bee hive

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b6rDa Today I learned : Who the Indigenous people of Sicily are.
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R7lVQ TIL in 1624 Marco Antonio de Dominis was publicly burned at the stake by the Catholic Church for his many “heresies” in both science and philosophy. Among them — being first to use science to accurately describe how rainbows are formed.
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