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TIL The Tel Dan Stele refers to a “House of David” which scholars believe is referring to the Bible’s King David

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4XBpR TIL video game composer Yuzo Koshiro created his own programming language just to make music for the Streets of Rage series.
j6BGp TIL peekaboo can help baby develop coping mechanisms for dealing with separation anxiety.
R7pW9 TIL Aristotle observed that fossils of seashells in rocks resembled those found on beaches. He inferred that the fossils in rocks were formed by organisms, and he reasoned that the positions of land and sea had been changing slowly since ancient times. Leonardo da Vinci agreed with this reasoning.
epOnk TIL that two successive attempts by the newly-formed FBI to catch Public Enemy #1 John Dillenger resulted in him and his gang getting away but their girlfriends being arrested, leading to mockery of the agency's bungling with the slogan, "We may not get our man, but we always get his woman."
n0Vb TIL that the country of Bhutan charges tourists a fee $250/day, but that it pays for food, lodging, travel, and guides