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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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p8l7e TIL Marvel Super Hero Island at Universal's Islands of Adventure had a scarezone during the 2002 Halloween Horror Nights, where superheroes were killed in horrific ways and villains took over the island. Marvel officials were angry after finding out and the scarezone was never used again after 2002.
R5eP7 TIL Canada's deadliest terror attack, the 1985 Air India Flight 182 bombing, killed 329 people. Multiple warnings from informants including recorded audio detailing the bombing plan were mishandled by authorities, leading to only one person being sentenced to 5 years in prison.
LQQ8r TIL that the entire score to Disney’s ‘Sleeping Beauty’ movie was a Tchaikovsky ballet. Disney writers came up the lyrics for ‘Once upon a dream’ and just laid them over the music.
oBnVK TIL that Finland was the first nation in the world that implemented universal suffrage (in 1906) and allowed all adult citizens to run for office, regardless of sex or race, and thus was the first true democracy in the world. The following year, the first female MPs in world history were elected.
yVkNv TIL Genghis Khan invented biological warfare and flung plague-infested bodies into cities during sieges, and is the reason for the Black Death being introduced to Europe.