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TIL humans invented booze before the wheel.

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QJvrX Today I learned that yoga was invented by ancient Indians
nep1P TIL that the term "teetotaler" came from the abbreviation "T.A.", for Total Abstinence. This was written on pledge cards in temperance societies, proclaiming that you were abstaining from alcohol rather than just drinking in moderation.
Je0v TIL that Theodore and Eleanor Roosevelt, when staying in the White House, reported sightings or a presence of Abraham Lincoln’s Ghost. Sightings have also been reported by Margaret Truman, Winston Churchill, and Henry Truman.
GvLE TIL that “72% of wingsuit flyers had witnessed death or serious injury, and 76% had experienced a ‘near miss’”
x5bk TIL that a hyena is genetically closer related to cats than to dogs