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TIL Archaeologists believe that 900 years ago, Native Americans in Southern Illinois built an entire village and filled it with sacrificial offerings with the sole intention of burning it to the ground as part of a religious ritual.

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7r6Kb TIL of the Seven Sutherland Sisters, who had a combined length of 37 ft of hair and traveled the world as a curiosity and to promote their hair growth products. They grew up in poverty, made millions, lived an extravagant and squandering lifestyle, and the last of them died destitute.
8aZAL TIL that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were just 2 of dozens of Japanese cities subjected to massive incendiary attacks. Firestorms leveled almost 100 square miles in Japan's three largest cities (Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya) alone. Hundreds of thousands were killed and millions forced to evacuate.
wLdBP TIL Andreas Mihavecz is an Austrian who was taken into custody and forgotten in his cell for 18 days by policemen. He lost 24 kg (53 pounds) and holds the record of surviving the longest without any food or liquids.
ddyr TIL Aaron Greenspan, a tech wizard who shared the same dorm with Mark Zuckerberg, built a Facebook-y site long before Facebook was built, but was (allegedly) given no credit when he claims (with documented proof) that Zuckerberg took inspiration from and copied off his product to build Facebook.
g6WA TIL the US government seized $80 mil worth of gold coins in 2011 that a Pennsylvania middle class family found in their grandfather’s safe deposit box. The coins pre-dated the Great Depression and an order by then President Roosevelt that all gold was to be seized by the government.