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TIL Someone in the distant past took a poop in a cave, and then 14,000 years later scientists in an advanced civilization are now fawning all over that piece of poop, making it perhaps one of the most valuable pieces of poop in history.

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XBLE TIL White Chocolate isn’t actually chocolate, as it is not made with any cocoa beans. It is actually made of cocoa butter, the fat from cocoa beans.
b6ZN0 Today I learned Winston Churchill topped the list of greatest Britons ever lived ahead of Issac Newton, Shakespeare, Darwin and Princess Diana.
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