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TIL Polynesians reached South America hundreds of years before Europeans

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pE6A TIL that a financial advisor in California suspected that a colleague was ejaculating in her drink bottle after noticing a strange taste, and had her boyfriend ejaculate into a water bottle to confirm her suspicions. The colleague was fired and charged with assault.
1der TIL that in 2010, Laszlo Hanyeck bought a pizza for 10,000 bitcoin. At the current exchange rate, that’s about $12 million USD.
OGaW1 TIL in a 1931 essay about on the future of science, Winston Churchill advocated for lab grown meat, predicted long distance communication through an internet-like system, and theorised that we'd be able to artificially cultivate humans based on our needs, but the moral debate would prevent this
8epBZ TIL China and India have been the population centers of the world for at least 6,000 years
JvwB TIL that Alexander Shulgin invented hundreds of designer drugs under the protection of the DEA, and that this relationship ended when he published recipes for making them