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TIL the oldest known toys in the world are a number of dolls found in a 4,500 years-old child's grave in Siberia

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R5Zv1 TIL that a man went to an auction to buy chairs and ended up buying Stonehenge
kJ1Ee TIL that during the 'leech craze' of the 1800s, leech collectors (who were usually women) would wade into ponds with their skirts raised to attract the leeches to their bare legs. Some used animals—such as horses that were too old to work—instead of their own bodies to catch the leeches
R7Zva TIl of anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes, who after researching international black market organ trade, made the "unusual" decision" to share her findings with law enforcement including the FBI, which later resulted in several arrests.
dPKZ TIL that the actor, (The Social Network, Now You See Me) Jesse Eisenberg suffers from OCD, separation anxiety, social anxiety and depression.
d8PgK TIL the "G" in "G-Spot" stands for Gräfenberg, a german gynecologist who studied female sexual physiology.