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TIL Reporter Geraldo Rivera was kicked out of Iraq after drawing a map in the sand giving details of US locations and future plans during a live broadcast.

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QN78p TIL that in middle ages suicidal people feared eternal damnation that direct suicide entailed, so they would commit a capital crime over innocent child and then turn themselves in to authorities and demand capital punishment
awVdy TIL about “The Great Filter”, a theoretically point in evolution that only a minuscule fraction of species could evolve past. This may explain why we have never contacted other high functioning species. Also, we do not know if humans have yet to reach it, or have already passed it.
ReB7 TIL we refer to our lower body garments as “pairs of pants” because they originally came as two articles of clothing instead of a single piece.
b9bA4 TIL that the reason people didn’t smile in old photos is because early photography was inspired by painting, where smiling was seen as inappropriate while stern looks appeared more formal for portraits.
oR9nA TIL of Peter Kinloch, who went blind shortly after summiting Mount Everest and had to be abandoned by his team