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TIL that inhabitants of Machu Picchu were immigrants from different parts of the Inca empire, as bone damage indicate infection of parasites indigenous to different areas of Peru.

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oKQW TIL that in Alaska residents can register to be on a “Roadkill List” to be notified when valuable roadkill meat becomes available.
awakL TIL Michael Thonet's S214 stool, designed in the 1850s, was the first stool to be produced industrially on a large scale for Europe's rapidly growing urban population in the 19th century.
pYe6A TIL: Banyan merchant is an expression used widely in the Indian Ocean trade to refer to Indian merchants who are clearly distinguished from others, by their clothing, their religious and cultural dietary choices, and the manner in which they conduct trade
18Vr TIL of The Grandmaster Experiment: Man finds wife based on her committal to creating children with the sole purpose of training them to become geniuses. He succeeds and has 3 daughters - all of which became Chess Grandmasters and the first women to achieve such status.
b6j49 TIL The Jerry Springer Show had over 3800 episodes.