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TIL that neanderthals didn’t rely on lightning strikes to make fire, instead, they used chemistry, by putting manganese dioxide on wood to lower the temperature required to create a flame.

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DQ9pY TIL: Pythagoras feared fava beans due to a common enzyme deficiency in Mediterranean people which makes them toxic (favism)
6E06m TIL Hitler loved Irish folk music. When Sean Dempsey came to play for him in 1936 there was no room for him to sit, which he needed to play. Hitler jumped up and ordered an S.S. member get down on his hands and knees and that Dempsey sit astride him while he played.
OX94 TIL that African wild dogs are the most successful predators/hunters, even better than lions, with a kill rate per chase of more than 85%
grlxX TIL Hitler was not a German citizen by birth. He was born in Austria and it was only in 1932 that he became a citizen of the country.
W1lo TIL that during his 1955 tour in Ghana, Louis Armstrong suddenly stopped playing, moved by the fact that one of the dancers resembled his mother, who had died 20 years before. He said: “I know it now. I came from here, way back. At least my people did. Now I know this is my country too.”