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TIL that archaeology shows humans living in the Americas long before the formation of the Bering Straight Land Bridge.

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p8P6p TIL The French government bombed and sunk a Greenpeace ship while it was harboured at Auckland, New Zealand. A photographer was killed, and two French agents were apprehended.
E1970 TIL of Grietje Scott, who at 90 years old revealed her secret to her family. She was actually a highly decorated member of the Dutch underground in WWII and part of an elite fighting force. She had never told anyone about it and not even her family knew.
nvV9 TIL IBM made the world’s smallest movie by moving around individual atoms, magnified 100 million times
DmKV TIL there is a modern day Anti Pope, Pope Gregory XVIII is the head of the Palmarian Catholic Church which broke away from the Roman Catholics in 1978 and claim all popes after Pope Paul VI are illegitimate.
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