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TIL that 'Swimming Reindeer' is the name given to a highly detailed 13,000 year-old ivory sculpture. Carved in the late Ice Age, it depicts two migrating reindeer (m & f) and shows a sophisticated understanding of their anatomy & behaviour. Antlers, fur, genitalia, udders & markings are all shown.

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78rOZ TIL that antihistamines (such as Benadryl) are associated with increased weight gain / Dementia / Alzheimer's when used regularly or long term.
xKew TIL that the President of France is also the Co-Prince of Andorra. Therefore, Andorra is the only country in the world that has a democratically elected monarch.
8KWX TIL that there are 20 planets with a rating of 80+ habitat conditions, meaning that we can colonize said planets.
aaQo TIL that a Tokyo-based company invented an in-office machine which turns used copier paper into toilet paper rolls, right in the office.
rReX4 TIL Terri Schiavo, the center of a famous right-to-die case, has three dates on her headstone: Born, Departed (the day she went into a vegetative state in 1990), and At Rest (the day she died after her feeding tube was removed in 2005)