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TIL that a research team figured out how to produce a fossil in as little as five days

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VBBR0 TIL There was a mass phenomenon from the 14th to 17th century in Europe called "Dancing Mania" where people started dancing for days or weeks until they collapsed or even died
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JYX5v TIL Mother Damnable, who ran Seattle's first brothel, could swear expertly in Chinese, English, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish.
e0my4 TIL there’s a laser procedure which breaks up brown eye pigment (melanin) in the iris. It effectively changes one’s eye color from brown to blue, since blue eyes exist under all brown eyes.
rN7yy TIL that Agent Orange has afflicted three million Vietnamese people, at least 150,000 of whom were born with severe birth abnormalities. Between 1961 and 1971, U.S. forces sprayed a class of color-coded herbicides across Vietnam's rural environment, including Agent Orange, to damage food crops.