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TIL we are technically still in an ice age.

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QNd0k TIL that in 1948 comedy writers at the BBC were forbidden to make jokes about lavatories and effeminacy in men or make suggestive references to honeymoon couples, chambermaids, fig leaves, prostitution, ladies' underwear, animal habits (e.g. rabbits), lodgers, and commercial travellers.
grO68 TIL Bagpipes were played in countries and cultures far before the famously known Scotland Highlanders, with history placing them in 1000BC Anatolia, as well as in Thrace, Northern Africa and throughout Asia.
4kmN6 TIL that while filming the opening scene of 'Scream' where she was being hunted by the killer Ghostface, Drew Barrymore actually called 911 due to an error by the prop master. The police called back in the middle of filming after Barrymore had called them screaming into the phone multiple times.
v8Yr TIL classical Greek and Roman architecture was actually polychromatic, meaning they were painted colorfully and intricately. This contradicts classical revivals that mimicked the stark stone structures that were left after the paint wore off.
pYNNA TIL about Sequoyah, a Native American of the early 19th centruy who, just seeing white people writing, understood what writing was and created, all by himself, an advanced syllabary system. After some years, more than 90% of Cherooke people were able to read.