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TIL Frontman Alice Cooper once lost a 12-foot boa named Yvonne in a hotel room in Knoxville, Tennessee. The snake reappeared two weeks later, having crawled into the sewer system via a hotel room toilet.

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l701a TIL of the Schöningen Spears, ten intact wooden spears discovered in a German mine between 1994-99. Strikingly similar to modern competition javelins, the 400,000 year old spears are the oldest worked wooden weapons ever found, and suggest early hominids used very sophisticated hunting techniques.
8aLK8 TIL that equisetum, or puzzlegrass, inspired the invention of logarithms
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QNLvL TIL that 15 years before the publication of George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, his wife Eileen O’Shaughnessy had already written and published a poem about 1984
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